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cigar-chomping

cigar-chomping adjective: frequently smoking a cigar, especially as suggestive of a powerful, chauvinistic, wealthy tycoon, capitalist, etc.

Adjective

cigar-chomping (not comparable)

  1. (derogatory, figuratively) Frequently smoking a cigar, especially as suggestive of a powerful, chauvinistic, wealthy tycoon, capitalist, etc.
    • This politician is always played by Edward Arnold, whose image is one of corpulent, cigar-chomping corrupt brutality.2012, Daniel Herwitz, Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony, Columbia University Press, page 183

Questions about cigar-chomping

What does cigar-chomping mean?
Cigar-chomping means frequently smoking a cigar, especially as suggestive of a powerful, chauvinistic, wealthy tycoon, capitalist, etc.
What part of speech is cigar-chomping?
Cigar-chomping is an adjective.

Words near cigar-chomping in the dictionary

  1. cigar-box guitar
  2. cigar-box guitars
  3. cigar-boxes
  4. cigar-butt
  5. cigar-butts
  6. cigar-chomping
  7. cigar-shaped
  8. cigar-smoke
  9. cigardom
  10. cigared
  11. cigaresque

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