Definitions for cigar

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cigar ci·gar

Spelling: [si-gahr]

IPA: /sɪˈgɑr/

Cigar is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in cigar (acgir).

Definitions for cigar

noun

1. a more or less cylindrical roll of tobacco cured for smoking, of any of various lengths, thicknesses, degrees of straightness, etc., usually wrapped in a tobacco leaf.

Idioms

1. no cigar, Informal. not being a winning or successful effort, as if not good enough to earn a cigar as a prize:

Origin of cigar

First recorded in 1625-35, cigar is from the Spanish word cigarro

Examples for cigar

Stay for Madonna smoking a cigar and actually talking with an American accent.

He flicked the ashes from his cigar, nursing his knee with the other hand.

So rich and delicious, so dark and layered with coffee and hazelnuts, toffee, orange peel, cigar box.

Calloway later posted an Instagram shot with the bottle and a cigar to thank him.

You kin imagine how that other feller's cigar tasted when he lighted it ag'in.

And he smiled and touched his cigar and his hat and finally patted the girl who worked nights on the bottom.

But this time the cigar and the punch seemed to fail of their effect.

His cigar had gone out; he relit it from the candle on our table, puffing great gray clouds of smoke.

"Crooked as a dog's hind legs," snarled Lewis, biting viciously at his cigar.

Yet he must not sit there, either, with the cigar between his teeth, unlighted.