(n.) A kind of cigar, originally brought from Mania, in the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tobacco.
Example Sentences:
(1) T he Japanese have a saying”, said Willi Hartenstein, pausing for a reflective puff on a cheroot.
(2) "Cheroots" smoking was found to be an important potentiating factor in the occurrence of non-specific respiratory diseases and reduction in FEV1.0, particularly among jute workers.
(3) Cheroot and cigarillos yielded 588 micrograms and 1119 micrograms hydrogen cyanide respectively.
(4) Cheroot and cigarillos yielded 400 micrograms and 333 micrograms steam-volatile phenol respectively.
(5) Not only are there temples, teashops and mouldering colonial-era mansions to explore but, increasingly, tourists can rub shoulders with both investors and cheroot-smokers at art galleries and chic bars, and experience a vibrant youth culture.
(6) The decline in FEV1 in cigar or cheroot smokers was the highest for all the smoking groups, and associated with a very high tobacco consumption in this group.
(7) Herbal bidi and cheroot had 1315 ng and 2519 ng benzo(a)pyrene respectively.
(8) Cesar Luis Menotti and cheroot A very well turned out Sepp Herberger flanked by Fritz Walter and Helmut Rahn in 1972.
(9) In female smokers, the risk of CMH increased significantly with short school education and was, after adjustment for the amount of tobacco smoked, approximately twice as high in cigarette smokers as in cheroot smokers.
(10) Cigarette smoking was the same in the two groups, but tobacco workers also smoked cheroots.
(11) In a field study, 75 workers from a cheroot factory were compared with 50 reference workers from a large telephone company.
(12) In cigarette smokers the risk of infection and reamputation was 2:5 times higher than in cheroot smokers or nonsmokers.
(13) Eastwood pauses, deliberately - once it would have provided him with the beat in which to spit out his cheroot before flinging back his poncho - and offers a last word of advice to the most influential black director in American movies.
(14) Differences in lung function between the two groups may result from excess cheroot consumption and higher previous exposure to tobacco dust among the tobacco workers.
(15) According to smoking habits, comparing social class V with social class I, the relative risk was 7.7 (2.6-22.4) in cigarette smokers, 6.0 (1.1-32.1) in pipe smokers, 3.5 (1.7-7.1) in mixed smokers, 2.25 (0.4-12.9) in cheroot smokers, 3.8 (2.4-5.9) in all smokers, 1.95 (0.8-4.6) in ex-smokers, and 4.7 (1.01-22.2) in non-smokers.
(16) After adjusting for number of cigarettes and cheroots smoked, there remained no significant differences.
(17) The study sample comprised 1492 smokers of plain cigarettes and 1936 smokers of filter cigarettes, 1711 smokers of cheroots or cigars, and 233 male pipe smokers.
(18) Of the 77 patients who smoked, 44 smoked cigarettes, 30 cheroots, and three a pipe.
(19) The concentration of cadmium in kidneys from 16 subjects who had been smoking pipes, cigars or cheroots did not differ significantly from the concentration in non-smokers and cigarette smokers.
(20) However, as female cheroot smokers on the average consumed much more tobacco than female cigarette smokers the incidence of CMH was almost the same in the two groups.
Kipper
Definition:
(n.) A salmon after spawning.
(n.) A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh.
(v. t.) To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking.
(1) Downstairs I had black coffee, kippers, and brown toast in the breakfast room.
(2) "But it is true that I was poisoned by a kipper in Glastonbury.
(3) Each week, as another Kipper gets done for some kind of insanity – a £3,000 restaurant bill in Margate?
(4) I did.” He’s done you up like a … well, a proverbial kipper.
(5) For a start, it is impossible: incorrigibility is the defining characteristic of the hardcore Kippers.
(6) "Oh, all that rubbish about Muriel being poisoned by a kipper in Glastonbury," he scoffed.
(7) If Kippers are a motley crew of Tory Europhobes, why should the left pay them any mind?
(8) She's appealing to the Kippers and the more extreme wing of her party, no matter what the consequences.
(9) My sister, who is a decade younger than me, suffers from it, too, and is often to be found picking over Whitehorn's advice about how useful the inhabitant of a bedsitter will find a jug - it can be used to make tea and coffee, or to cook kippers - or reading, for the ninth time, the author's warning that her recipe cooking times do not include 'the time it takes you to find the salt in the suitcase under the bed'.
(10) He is joined in the most-borrowed author list by six children's writers – Daisy Meadows, the brand behind the Rainbow Magic series, Donaldson, Francesca Simon, author of the Horrid Henry series, Jacqueline Wilson, Kipper creator Mick Inkpen and the Beast Quest series' Adam Blade.
(11) I said that he resembled a kipper that had been smoked before it was dead, and Julie has blanked me since.
(12) None of these have made a dent in Ukip's support and those imagining one more "big push" on Europe will return the Kippers to the fold are deluding themselves.
(13) One of the greatest sources of anxiety among Labour backbenchers is the fear that immigration is mainly responsible for their leakage of votes to the Kippers.
(14) "I have said many, many times I wouldn't count any chickens", says Dorothy Baker, the 77-year-old retired teacher and grandmother-of-six who is part election generalissimo and part self-confessed mother hen to the "'Kippers" of Somerset.
(15) A source close to the company said: “Sports Direct looks forward to working with the management as a supportive shareholder.” Kipper Williams on Sports Direct Read more Earlier this year, his company took out a put option on shares in Debenhams , which gave it a 16.6% stake as Sports Direct negotiated a deal to manage sports goods areas within the department store chain.
(16) Vote Leave, remember, was meant to be the moderate, judicious voice of Euroscepticism, distinct in manner and content from the vulgar nationalism conveyed by swivel-eyed, puce-cheeked Kippers.
(17) Asked to explain the party's failure in London, Ukip's Suzanne Evans was asked if she agreed with the Kipper who had said the problem was that the capital was too full of the "cultured, educated and young".
(18) Two women laugh: “It’s only us tough old birds who can face the cold.” A man in a linen suit and panama hat sweeps past into the hotel, looking for all the world like Colonel Sanders; he’s by far the nattiest dressed of the Kippers who, on this showing, seem to be late-middle-aged women in bad anoraks.
(19) And before that there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth from the unions, passengers and politicians about the prospect of higher fares and fewer trains and the general disaster of everything about Britain's railways since the day they stopped serving kippers for breakfast on the night sleeper to Aberdeen.
(20) Judith Kipper, director of the Middle East programme at Washington's Institute of World Affairs "Now he is president, I think we have to see whether Karzai has learned any lessons and whether he has the power and tools to govern in a different way.