noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cigarette/cigar/tobacco smoke
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The air was thick with cigarette smoke.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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Nigel was ostentatiously smoking a big cigar to give an illusion of poise.
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Craig Bixby was unwrapping the big green vile-smelling cigar that always signaled the end of a meeting.
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Ride up and down in a chauffeur-driven limousine, smoking big cigars .
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An old slick. headed man who smoked great big black cigars .
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But I've got the mobile phone, the furry coat and the big cigar .
fat
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He's a V-sign and a fat cigar !
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The air was thick with the smells of fat imported cigars and the kind of champagne better worn than swallowed.
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The first was a joke: I caught you smoking that fat cigar against doctor's orders.
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He was puffing a fat cigar , the smoke concealing his facial features.
small
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Then she settled herself more comfortably into her chair, motioned Christina to take the one opposite and lit a small cigar .
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When they were clear of the city's traffic, Colt eased himself back in the seat and lit a small cigar .
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A small cigar in his mouth.
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She was smoking a small cigar and sported a face that was a lot less elegant than the hat.
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He declined the cigarette, he lit for himself a small cigar .
■ NOUN
box
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Careta reached under the sofa and took out a cigar box .
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She took a cigar box from a cupboard, opened it and displayed a number of sticks of greasepaint.
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Made a plane out of a cigar box for his fifth-grade teacher.
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Stella and he had found them stuffed into old cigar boxes and plastic shopping bags scattered in different places around the house.
smoke
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My father went back to stirring the soup, which I could smell now above the cigar smoke .
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Hicks brushed aside the blue haze of his cigar and felt suddenly that he was trying to dispel more than cigar smoke .
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When the door opened a great smell of sweat and leather and stale cigar smoke rushed into the cold night air.
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That relatively small room appeared to be a forest of black dinner jackets, grey hair and cigar smoke .
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All he got in return was a blank stare and a cloud of fresh cigar smoke .
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Not another word, a sigh, no raised eyebrow or even an impatient puff of cigar smoke .
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She sobbed into his cashmere overcoat, smelling the peculiar odour of him, Old Spice and cigar smoke .
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The atmosphere was electric with anticipation and unbreathable with cigar smoke .
smoker
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Of male pipe and cigar smokers , nearly three quarters are ex-cigarette smokers.
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Real cigar smokers are getting screwed.
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In comparison, the risk for pipe and cigar smokers was only up to 10% higher than nonsmokers.
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Why are cigar smokers cool and cigarette smokers scum?
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Both are New Yorkers, and obviously a couple of old cigar smokers .
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Historical notes profile lady cigar smokers dating back to the 1600s.
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Yes, mortality rates among cigarette smokers are way higher than among cigar smokers.
■ VERB
light
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He lit one of the cigars which he smoked nonstop and blew rich smoke upwards.
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In the fresh air I light my first cigar of the day, and break the match before I drop it.
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He shouldn't be lighting a cigar .
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His own father would lie down after dinner, light a cigar , and listen to classical music.
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In a sullen silence he lit a cigar and helped himself to a stiff measure of brandy.
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Hill lit his first cigar of the afternoon and thought how popular his investigation should be.
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He shifted in his seat, half at his ease, and lit a cigar .
puff
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Regan gazed abstractedly up at the ceiling, puffing away at his cigar .
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Trumka just looked at me and puffed his cigar .
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He was puffing a fat cigar , the smoke concealing his facial features.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
close, but no cigar
draw on a cigarette/cigar etc
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A former grocer from Rector Street, at twenty he had gone bankrupt trying to run a cigar store on Pearl Street.
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Careta reached under the sofa and took out a cigar box.
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He watched Sir Charles cut the tip off his cigar .
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In the fresh air I light my first cigar of the day, and break the match before I drop it.
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It was a genuine Empire product from Santanni, though the cigars it now contained were home-grown.
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Look at Fidel Castro and his cigar .
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She cleared these things to one side and laid the cigar down in the middle of the dressing-table.