Meaning & use

Stogies

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Cheap, roughly made cigars, typically long and thin.

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The old poker players puffed on stogies as they dealt another hand.

He kept a box of stogies in his desk drawer for celebrating small wins.

A note on using this word

Stogie is said to derive from Conestoga, Pennsylvania, where wagon drivers reportedly favored these long, inexpensive cigars.

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cigars

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