Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A small narrow cigar.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a small cigar or cigarette wrapped in tobacco instead of paper.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A thin cigar, differing from a cigarette in being wrapped with tobacco leaves rather than paper

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun small cigar or cigarette wrapped in tobacco instead of paper

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Spanish cigarrillo, diminutive of cigarro, cigar; see cigar.]

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From Spanish cigarillo < cigrarro ("cigar") + -illo ("diminutive suffix").

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Examples

  • Time you went home and me to my cottage, he said and flicked his cigarillo out on the sand.

    Cigarillo Shelagh Power-Chopra 2011

  • When I didn't answer, "Thirteen," he said again in his superfly-slick platform accent, and I could hear him take a long drag from his cigarillo.

    Corpse Safari Cheryl Anne Gardner 2011

  • There was another cigarillo in the sand, this time tossed near the lifeguard's chair.

    Cigarillo Shelagh Power-Chopra 2011

  • Shirley stubbed her cigarillo out on a dead chunk of honeycomb.

    Dangerous Questions John Wentworth Chapin 2011

  • Left to right: Mum, with Ritmeester cigarillo; Nick, somewhat subdued; an unidentified young female person wearing the oversized spectacles (Amanda insists that this widget is not her); Simon “Soprano”; Joey, and Uncle Colin, wearing the traditional headgear of an Australian legal practitioner.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • I found the cigarillo in the sand, tossed near a patch of beach plums.

    Cigarillo Shelagh Power-Chopra 2011

  • Left to right: Mum, with Ritmeester cigarillo; Nick, somewhat subdued; an unidentified young female person wearing the oversized spectacles (Amanda insists that this widget is not her); Simon “Soprano”; Joey, and Uncle Colin, wearing the traditional headgear of an Australian legal practitioner.

    The Trumbles at Leisure 2009

  • Still, Ms. Burden said that she prefers the more feminine cigarillo, and is hoping that Mr. Paley will add one to his La Palina line.

    '1896' Lights Up Launch Party 2010

  • I must have dozed off in the sun after finishing my second cigarillo, otherwise I'm sure I would have noticed the commotion.

    toupee 2010

  • Al-Manar holds a special symbolic place in the resistance, Kassir said, pulling at a cigarillo and fidgeting with the ash while he spoke.

    A Privilege to Die Thanassis Cambanis 2010

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