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cheroot

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che·root also she·root  (sh-rt)
n.
A cigar with square-cut ends.
[French cheroute, ultimately from Tamil curruu, from curi, to be spiral.]
cheroot [ʃəˈruːt]
n
(Law / Recreational Drugs) a cigar with both ends cut off squarely
[from Tamil curuttu curl, roll]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.cherootcheroot - a cigar with both ends cut flat      
cigar - a roll of tobacco for smoking
Translations
cheroot [ʃəˈruːt] N → puro m (cortado en los dos extremos)
cheroot
n → Stumpen m
cheroot [ʃəˈruːt] n → sigaro spuntato
cheroot [ʃəˈruːt] n → sigaro spuntato


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Murthwaite took his cheroot out of his mouth, and leaned, in his weary way, against the trunk of a tree.
The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie View in context
By way of assisting meditation, he had even gone the length of taking out his flint and steel and tinder, and hammering away for a quarter of an hour till he had manufactured a light for a long Trichinopoli cheroot, which he silently puffed, to the no small wonder of coachee, who was an old friend, and an institution on the Bath road, and who always expected a talk on the prospects and doings, agricultural and social, of the whole country, when he carried the Squire.
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context
Again the beastly stench almost made him faint, and he lit a cheroot.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
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