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Cheap cigarette, in India
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beedi
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A beedi (; from ; also spelled bidi or biri ) is a thin, Indian cigarette filled with tobacco flake and wrapped in a tendu or possibly even Piliostigma racemosum leaf tied with a string at one end. The name is derived from the Marwari word beeda —a mixture ...
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n. a thin, often flavored, Indian cigarette made of tobacco wrapped in a tendu leaf
Usage examples of beedi.
Here Pimple's soliloquy climaxed in such a torrent of obscenities that the beedi-smokers sat up for the first time and commenced animatedly to compare Pimple's vocabulary with that of the infamous bandit queen Phoolan Devi whose oaths could melt rifle barrels and turn journalists' pencils to rubber in a trice.
The Imam, a loose-bellied man with cynical eyes, who could be found most mornings in his "garden" -- a red-earth-and-rubble waste land in the shadow of the mosque -- counting rupees donated by the faithful and rolling up each note individually, so that he seemed to be holding a handful of thin beedi-like cigarettes -- and who was no stranger to com-- munalist politics himself, was apparently determined that the Meerut horror should be turned to good account.