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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stogie
noun
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▪ Six-foot-seven Paul Volcker chomped on a huge stogie and dominated a room.
▪ The usual smell of long-seated bottoms, of sour shoes, of tobacco muck, of stogies, cologne, face powder.
▪ Winnie whips out a stogie and starts puffing away, blowing smoke over to your table.
▪ With a cry of rage, he puffed on his much-chewed stogie and fired at us.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
stogie

Stogy \Sto"gy\, n.; pl. Stogies. [Written also stogie.]

  1. A stout, coarse boot or shoe; a brogan.

  2. A kind of cheap, but not necessary inferior, cigar made in the form of a cylindrical roll.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stogie

also stogy, 1847 as an adjective, "rough, heavy, coarse" (of work shoes, etc.); as a noun, "long, cheap cigar" (1873), both shortened from Conestoga, rural region near Lancaster, Pennsylvania; both items so-called because favored by drivers of the Conestoga style of covered wagons first made there.

Wiktionary
stogie

n. 1 (context slang English) A thin, cheap cigar, from Conestoga Township, Pennsylvania. 2 (context slang English) Any type of cigar. 3 (context dated English) brogan.

Wikipedia
Stogie
  1. redirect Cheroot

Usage examples of "stogie".

Andi confirmed, taking the biscotti from her mouth and holding it like Groucho did his stogie.

Cordially yours, Violet Dearing Greenboro Jail, October 10th Gillian entered his office, which adjoined his bedroom, sat down at his typewriter, and laboriously picked out with two fingers the following brief composition: My Dear Miss Dearing: I will bet you a box of the best pure silk size eight stockings available in the civilized world against a Pittsburgh stogie that, before you are once again a free woman, you will have told Wally Brundage to roll his hoop.

But in this one Winnie is holding a spliff the size of a Cornetto rather than his usual stogie.

When the dean called him in to inform him that he had flunked out, the tall young Arab was puffing a stogie that cost half as much as the office furniture and weighed more than the phone on the desk.

He watched Stogie parade around the ring, warming himself by an invisible fire, allowing Schnoozle to startle him into a pair of pratfalls, and finally sweeping the spotlight into a smaller and smaller circle until it vanished.

The other three girls and Swede, the huge roughie, were at the next window, and Stogie, holding his schnauzer tightly to his chest, was at a third.

Coming in at the front door and finding himself a chair, he lighted one of the stogies and crossing his legs began to talk.

Now that he was out on the road, he fished the extinct butt of a fat stogie from the pocket of his trench coat and stoked it into life with a wooden safety match.