cigar-chomping

adjective

Frequently smoking a cigar, especially as suggestive of a powerful, chauvinistic, wealthy tycoon, capitalist, etc.

Meanings

adjectivecigar-chomping (not comparable)
  1. derogatoryfigurativelynot comparableFrequently 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
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