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cigar-chomping en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (derogatory, figuratively, not-comparable) 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: