cigarillo
Americannoun
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a small, thin cigar.
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a cigarette with a wrapping of tobacco instead of paper.
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Etymology
Origin of cigarillo
1825–35; < Spanish, diminutive of cigarro cigar
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Testing indicated DNA collected from an empty cigarillo package found in Johnson’s apartment was connected to Reed, Baker’s office said.
From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2022
Though she survived decades of hard partying, Eve was felled by an accident in 1997 when the ash from a cigarillo torched her polyester skirt while she was driving.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2021
When the trailer panned to Notaro in a “Top Gun”-esque flight suit and aviators, a cigarillo clenched between her teeth, her fans campaigned for her to replace all the abhorrent men in movies.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2021
I could almost smell the cigarillo he’s smoking and the man sweat I mostly knew about from clandestine reads of The Clan of the Cave Bear.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2018
Mr. Nancy stubbed out his cigarillo, then he flicked an imaginary speck of ash off his yellow gloves.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
Instead, black youth are more likely to use menthol flavored cigarillos, which can be purchased in packs of three for 99 cents in low-income African American neighborhoods.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 2, 2020
Within days of Brown’s death, Ferguson police released surveillance video from Ferguson Market purporting to show Brown stealing cigarillos from the store shortly before noon.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2017
Minutes earlier, Little Vic and an acquaintance named Isaiah Lewis were buying cigarillos at a nearby Texaco gas station when a fight broke out in the parking lot.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2017
Wilson surmised that Brown and Johnson were the robbery suspects, based on the descriptions offered on the radio and the cigarillos in Brown’s hands.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 10, 2015
But the supper was so unpalatable and unclean a meal, that hungry as I was, I fain amused myself the while, puffing cigarillos, catching fleas, and drinking execrably sour country wine.
From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)
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