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chewing tobaccos

chewing tobaccos is the plural of chewing tobacco.

Meaning of chewing tobacco

Noun

chewing tobacco (countable and uncountable, plural chewing tobaccos)

  1. (US) Tobacco, cut or ground finely, and placed between the cheek and the gum to allow nicotine absorption through the mucous membranes.
    • "Take, say a fourth of a pound of chewing tobacco, tear it well to pieces, and put it into a vesssel and pour to it a sufficiency of boiling water...."1847, editorial staff, “Billions Cholic”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 10, page 80
    Synonyms:
    dip, snuff
  2. (US, dated) Tobacco that is cut into strips or shreds, and chewed and then tucked between the cheek and the gum.
    • Near-synonym: plug
    Synonyms:
    plug

Questions about chewing tobaccos

What is chewing tobaccos the plural of?
Chewing tobaccos is the plural of chewing tobacco.

Words near chewing tobaccos in the dictionary

  1. chewing the cud
  2. chewing the fat
  3. chewing the meat and spitting out the bones
  4. chewing the scenery
  5. chewing tobacco
  6. chewing tobaccos
  7. chewing up
  8. chewing up and spitting out
  9. chewing-ball
  10. chewing-balls
  11. chewing-gum

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chewing tobaccos (page history and authors); chewing tobacco (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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