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noun
Idiom1.
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.
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no cigar, Informal. not being a winning or successful effort, as if not good enough to earn a cigar as a prize: He made a good try at fielding the ball, but no cigar.
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Cigar
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Origin:
1625–35; < Spanish cigarro
1625–35; < Spanish cigarro
Related forms
ci·gar·less, adjective
ci·gar·like, adjective
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Word Origin & History
cigar
1730, from Sp. cigarro, prob. from Maya sicar "to smoke rolled tobacco leaves," from sic "tobacco;" or from or infl. by Sp. cigarra "grasshopper."
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