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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A compact roll of tobacco leaves prepared for smoking.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A cylindrical roll of tobacco for smoking, pointed at one end for insertion into the mouth and cut at the other for lighting. It is made of the leaves of the tobacco-plant divested of the stems and enveloped tightly in a wrapper of the same material. A cigar of tapering form, but not pointed at either end, is called a cheroot. Also written, improperly, segar.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Tobacco, rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A small roll of tobacco, used for smoking.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a roll of tobacco for smoking

Etymologies

  1. From Spanish cigarro, of uncertain origin; perhaps from cigarra ("cicada") or from Mayan sicar ("to smoke tobacco leaves"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Spanish cigarro, possibly from Maya sik'ar, from sik, tobacco. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • hernesheir This word meant "Cannot be had under any circumstances" in the abbreviated jargon of railroad telegraphers. --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906. Jan 21, 2013

  • bilby Cigar? Toss it in a can, it is so tragic. Oct 18, 2008

  • treeseed Have you ever had a bubblegum cigar? My favorite are the yellow banana flavored ones that sold for 5 cents when I was a kid. Feb 4, 2008

  • mollusque Guitars can be made from cigar boxes. See Free Associations. Feb 4, 2008

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‘cigar’ has been looked up 1902 times, added to 18 lists, commented on 4 times, and has a Scrabble score of 8.