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exotic cheroot en · NOUN

Etymology

Coined by Private Eye magazine.

Meanings

1. (UK, euphemistic) Cannabis, a joint of cannabis.
   • No sweet scent of the exotic cheroot taints the air, there are scarcely even any smokers, and no one seems to be employing the men's room either to take on fuel or to make a brisk exchange of spermatozoa. 1994, Christopher Hitchens, “Warhol in One Dimension”, in For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports, →ISBN, page 283:
   • But some busybody got a whiff of an exotic cheroot and the place was closed down. 1989, Punch, volume 296, numbers 7721-7733, page 207:
   • 'This friend of yours must have been smoking exotic cheroots while writing to you,' reads the note and I laugh out loud, especially as the letter comes from Chuck Pfeifer. 1994, Taki, Nothing to Declare, →ISBN, page 188:
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see exotic, cheroot.
   • The second smell that pervades the sales is cigar smoke. Whether you're there to buy a horse or merely watch other people buying horses, it is almost obligatory to puff on an exotic cheroot. 1981 04, The Bulletin:

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