Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a cigar or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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cigar +‎ -like

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Examples

  • This recipe is based on mu shu pork, the popular Chinese restaurant dish that combines deep-fried or stir-fried strips of pork with a colorful array of Chinese vegetables and some scrambled eggs, all of which are rolled up in a thin, cigarlike pancake and dipped in hoisin or plum sauce.

    SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS SARA MOULTON 2010

  • This recipe is based on mu shu pork, the popular Chinese restaurant dish that combines deep-fried or stir-fried strips of pork with a colorful array of Chinese vegetables and some scrambled eggs, all of which are rolled up in a thin, cigarlike pancake and dipped in hoisin or plum sauce.

    SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS SARA MOULTON 2010

  • It was the color of cigar tobacco, it smelled like the butt of a cheap cheroot, and every now and then an actual cigarlike entity would break the oily sheen of its surface to glide among the citrus rinds, plastic cartons, and Inca Cola cans that dotted the waters.

    Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

  • It was the color of cigar tobacco, it smelled like the butt of a cheap cheroot, and every now and then an actual cigarlike entity would break the oily sheen of its surface to glide among the citrus rinds, plastic cartons, and Inca Cola cans that dotted the waters.

    Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

  • We saw it soon as a cylindrical, cigarlike shape, rather smaller than the _Planetara_, but similar of design.

    Brigands of the Moon Ray Cummings 1922

  • He ate two of the three greasy, cigarlike shapes cordially pressed upon him in return.

    Penrod 1914

  • He ate two of the three greasy, cigarlike shapes cordially pressed upon him in return.

    Penrod Booth Tarkington 1907

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