beedi

Noun

beedi (plural beedis)

1. A thin, often flavored, Indian cigarette made of tobacco wrapped in a tendu leaf.
   • I always write with the music on and a bottle of good red. And smoke Mangalore Ganesh beedies.1990, Charles Bukowski, “letter, 15 September”, in Abel Debritto, editor, On Writing, Canongate, published 2016, page 198
   • I walk in, talking to friendly faces in my aces / Drinking beer, smoking beedis in the back where the bass is2002, People Under the Stairs, “The Suite For Beaver Part 2”, in O.S.T.