Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small narrow cigar.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a small cigar or cigarette wrapped in tobacco instead of paper.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small cigar or cigarette wrapped in tobacco instead of paper
Etymologies
- Spanish cigarrillo, diminutive of cigarro, cigar; see cigar.
Examples
“Shirley stubbed her cigarillo out on a dead chunk of honeycomb.”
“I found the cigarillo in the sand, tossed near a patch of beach plums.”
“There was another cigarillo in the sand, this time tossed near the lifeguard's chair.”
“Time you went home and me to my cottage, he said and flicked his cigarillo out on the sand.”
“In the sketch he was wearing a beret and smoking a cigarillo.”
“The double doors to a giant patio were open, and Lucas held a champagne flute in one hand and a freshly lit cigarillo in the other as he regaled a small group of guests with the triumphant story of how he had been one of only a few investors in the country to bet against the housing market.”
“She is smoking a cigarillo and drinking cranberry juice.”
“Would he permit himself a cigarillo as he strolled?”
“Al-Manar holds a special symbolic place in the resistance, Kassir said, pulling at a cigarillo and fidgeting with the ash while he spoke.”
“One of the batteries after the shock test was not quite up-to-mark and probably the separator in the cigarillo roll gave away --- and they were furiously discharging that.”
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