beedi

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi बीड़ी (bidi).

Noun

beedi (plural beedis)

  1. A thin, often flavored, Indian cigarette made of tobacco wrapped in a tendu leaf.
    • 1990, Charles Bukowski, letter, 15 September, in On Writing, Canongate 2016, p. 198:
      I always write with the music on and a bottle of good red. And smoke Mangalore Ganesh beedies.
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