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Cigar butt   /sɪgˈɑr bət/   Listen
Cigar butt

noun
1.
Small part of a cigar that is left after smoking.





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"Cigar butt" Quotes from Famous Books



... his place so that the chair creaked beneath him, scraped the cigar butt out of its holder into the ash-tray, and walked stiffly over to the wall where his hat hung on a nail. At the same time he continued ...
— Good Blood • Ernst Von Wildenbruch
... "Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay"; the damp, musty smell of an empty house; stale beer; a mangy fur coat; Katzenjammer; false teeth; the criticism of Hamilton Wright Mabie; boiled cabbage; a cocktail after dinner; an old cigar butt; ... the kiss of Evelyn after the inauguration ...
— A Book of Burlesques • H. L. Mencken
... daughter to keep her trap shut." The Senator tossed the cigar butt down in disgust. "It happened once, yes. That god damned Rinehart is enough to make anybody black out." He thrust out his jaw and glowered at Dr. Moss as though it were all his fault. Then he grinned. ...
— Martyr • Alan Edward Nourse
... reflectively, and deriving a rather cold satisfaction from his cigar butt, he let his mind wander back through the history of theocracy and of mundane philosophy, mildly amused to recognize an ancient theory resurrected and made passionately original once more on the red lips ...
— The Crimson Tide • Robert W. Chambers


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