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Definition of cigar noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

cigar

noun

NAmE//sɪˈɡɑr//

a roll of dried tobacco leaves that people smoke, like a cigarette but bigger and without paper around it cigar smoke

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Idioms

close, but no cigar (informal)

used to tell someone that their attempt or guess was almost but not quite successful

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