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cigarless

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ci⋅gar

[si-gahr]
–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.
2. 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.

Origin:
1625–35; < Sp cigarro


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."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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