cigar

/səˈgɑr/

/sɪˈgɑ/

Other forms: cigars

A cigar is a fairly large rolled bundle of tobacco that smokers light and take puffs from. A cigar is usually brown, and it's almost always fatter and longer than a cigarette.

Cigar smoking tends to be more of a special event than cigarette smoking, and the ritual involves cutting off the cigar's closed end, lighting the other side with a match, and puffing the smoke lightly. Another difference between cigar and cigarette smokers is that cigar smoke isn't usually inhaled, but only drawn into the mouth. The word cigar comes from the Spanish cigarro, most likely from a Mayan root, sicar, "to smoke rolled tobacco leaves."

Definitions of cigar

1. noun

   a roll of tobacco for smoking
   types:

   cheroot

   a cigar with both ends cut flat

   cigarillo

   small cigar or cigarette wrapped in tobacco instead of paper

   claro

   a cigar made with light-colored tobacco

   corona

   a long cigar with blunt ends

   panatela, panetela, panetella

   a long slender cigar

   stogie, stogy

   a cheap cigar

   type of:

   roll of tobacco, smoke

   tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder