cigar

Examples

• All

• We had a fine dinner at the Faculty Club, and cigars to mark its completion.

  Academic text (1999)

• She gave him a cigar to celebrate his promotion at work.

• And I was smoking a cigar and drinking a beer early.

  The Basement Yard

• The higher the quality of the cigar, the longer the ash it will produce.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Have a cigar, Mr. Shea.

  This Could Be the Night (1957)

• The president had two cigars in the other hand, and he offered me one.

  Academic text (2011)

• Sealock sat up and slowly took the cigar out of his mouth.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Try one of these Jamaican cigars, Ambassador.

  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

• He keeps puffing on that cigar.

  Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971)

• After dinner, he enjoyed a cigar while relaxing on the porch.

Synonyms

S

stogie

vscigar

• Archaic

5 9.8

A cheap long thin cigar

is the ordinary cylindrical tobacco roll without implied low price or quality

C

corona

vscigar

• Jargon

4 8.2

A straight cigar with rounded ends about six inches long

is the broader cylindrical tobacco roll without fixed length or thickness

C

cigarillo

vscigar

2 8.1

A small cigar wrapped in tobacco leaf and thinner than a regular cigar

is the standard cylindrical tobacco roll generally larger and thicker

P

panetela

vscigar

• Jargon

1 9.9

A long thin cigar that is narrower than most cigars

is the general cylindrical tobacco roll without extra length or narrowness

P

panetella

vscigar

• Jargon

9.9

A long thin cigar with straight sides and rounded ends

is the general cylindrical tobacco roll without fixed side or end shape

Idioms

C

close, but no cigar

• Informal

2 8.6

Nearly succeeding but failing at the last moment

Compounds

C

cigar box

9 2.1

A small box for keeping cigars or other small items

C

cigar cutter

2 4.4

A small tool for cutting the end off a cigar before you smoke it

C

cigar smoker

2 3.0

A person who often uses cigars to relax

C

cigar band

2 4.2

A narrow paper strip wrapped around a cigar showing the brand or logo

C

cigar-shaped

2 4.4

Long and thin with both ends narrower, like a cigar

C

cigar butt

1 4.1

A small piece left at the end of a cigar after most of it is smoked

C

cigar lighter

1 3.2

A small tool that makes a flame to light cigars or cigarettes

C

cigar-box cedar

6.9

A light fragrant wood that people use to make cigar boxes and protect cigars

D

devil's cigar

• US

9.9

A rare fungus with a cigar-shaped body that splits open to release spores

How Big

corona

• Jargon

4 8.2

cigar

291 2.4

cigarillo

2 8.1

Surface Forms

Etymology