Definitions for tobacco

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tobacco to·bac·co

Spelling: [tuh-bak-oh]

IPA: /təˈbæk oʊ/

Tobacco is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in tobacco (abccoot).

Definitions for tobacco

noun

1. any of several plants belonging to the genus Nicotiana, of the nightshade family, especially one of those species, as N. tabacum, whose leaves are prepared for smoking or chewing or as snuff.
2. the prepared leaves, as used in cigarettes, cigars, and pipes.
3. any product or products made from such leaves.
4. any of various similar plants of other genera.

Origin of tobacco

1525-35; Spanish tabaco, perhaps Arawak: a pipe for smoking the plant, or roll of leaves smoked, or the plant

Examples for tobacco

In the dense atmosphere of tobacco and conspiracy, one hot topic has been the death penalty.

Then with a sigh of satisfaction, he fumbled for his pipe and tobacco, and looked about him.

Chip gurgled again, and drew the tobacco sack shut with his teeth.

Then he said, meekly, "Does your mother object to tobacco smoke, ma'am?"

And now came the planters of Virginia, bringing their crops of tobacco.

His reasoning was twofold, he said: He saw the effects of tobacco both on his father and on the developing world.

My grandfather lived fast and large—he liked his liquor and his tobacco, and he was also an ace gambler.

An AVA is decided, incredibly, not by wine connoisseurs but by the Bureau of Alcohol, tobacco and Firearms.

For all indulgence in wine and coffee and tobacco you will have a bill to pay.

You spice it with blues and skiffle music, and pickle it in alcohol and tobacco smoke.