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Cigar (disambiguation)

A cigar is a roll of tobacco.

Cigar or the Cigar can also stand for:

As an acronym

  • CIGAR (aviation), a mnemonic for pre-takeoff checklists (Controls, Instruments, Gas, Attitude, Run-Up)
  • CIGAR string, a representation of sequence alignment in Bioinformatics (Compact Idiosyncratic Gapped Alignment Report)
  • CII GUI Architecture

People

  • Delbert Daisey (1928–2017), American waterfowl wood carver and decoy maker known as "Cigar" Daisey
  • Marvin Elkind (aka "the Weasel" or "the Cigar"), Jimmy Hoffa's driver and subject of The Weasel: A Double Life in the Mob, a 2011 biography
  • Carmine Galante (1910–1979), American mobster also known as "Cigar"
  • Paul McKinney (1925–2013), American poker player

Race horses

  • Cigar (horse) (1990–2014), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
  • Cigar, a steeplechase horse that flourished around 1841

Other uses

  • Cigar (band), an American punk rock band
  • Cigar Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada - see Cigar Lake Mine

See also

  • Cuphea ignea, a species of flowering plant also known as the cigar plant or cigar flower
  • Lasioderma serricorne or cigar beetle, a species
  • Olindias phosphorica or cigar jellyfish, a species
  • Cookiecutter shark or Cigar shark, a species of dogfish shark
  • Cigar wrasse, a species of marine fish
  • Beroe (ctenophore) or cigar comb jellies, members of a genus of comb jellies
  • Messier 82, also known as the Cigar Galaxy
  • Cigar Bowl, a post-season American college football bowl game from 1947 to 1954
  • Cigar Mile Handicap, American Throughbred horse race named after the 20th century horse
  • Nick Popaditch (born 1967), American retired Marine Corps gunnery sergeant and political candidate known as the "Cigar Marine"
  • Sigar
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