cigarillo

[ sig-uh-ril-oh ]

/ ˌsɪg əˈrɪl oʊ /

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noun, plural cig·a·ril·los.

a small, thin cigar.

a cigarette with a wrapping of tobacco instead of paper.

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Origin of cigarillo

1825–35; <Spanish, diminutive of cigarrocigar

Words nearby cigarillo

cigarette girl, cigarette holder, cigarette lighter, cigarette paper, cigar flower, cigarillo, cigar store, cigar-store Indian, Cigfa, ciggy, CIGS

How to use cigarillo in a sentence

The man took a long, unlit cigarillo out of his mouth, and paused.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Big Christie’s Auction Brings in $38.8 Million|Isabel Wilkinson|May 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Angela “Big Ang” Raiola, the towering, cigarillo-puffing star of the hit VH1 reality series Mob Wives, is truly a sight to behold.
Big Ang, Breakout Star of VH1’s Reality Series ‘Mob Wives,’ Opens Up|Marlow Stern|March 21, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Food is always of secondary importance: he ranks it after his novia, after his cigarillo, after the bulls.
Spanish Life in Town and Country|L. Higgin and Eugne E. Street
An hour later I sat beside Jos's hearth, smoking a friendly cigarillo, with the surly old peasant.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 63, No. 391, May, 1848|Various

Behind it, to one side, Mars floated like the red tip of a smoldering cigarillo in the blackness.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930|Various
The cigarillo is smoked slowly, the last whiff being the bonne bouche, the breast, la pechuga.
Gatherings From Spain|Richard Ford
In the Cigarillo manufactory about 2000 workmen find employment.
Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II|Karl Ritter von Scherzer

British Dictionary definitions for cigarillo

cigarillo

/ (ˌsɪɡəˈrɪləʊ) /

noun plural -los

a small cigar often only slightly larger than a cigarette

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