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Close but no cigar

When you come close to something but don't quite get there.

Just short of success

This phrase originated in the 1920's. Fair grounds would give cigars away as prizes. Prizes were more aimed at the adults then vs. children like they are now. The fair workers would shout out "close but no cigar".... The first written documentation of this word appeared in the 1930's and then became a common phrase.
You finish second in a race
A friend asks how you did
You tell them "I finished in second place, close but no cigar"
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Flesh Cigar

There was an article in the New York Post that claimed Fidel Castro gave the ol' flesh cigar to 35 000 women.
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Sitting on a cigar

Dude! Stop at the next rest stop. I'm sitting on a cigar.
by Chipf70 March 11, 2012
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Cigar Farts

Noun: used to define extremely bad gas one encounters after a night of drinking and smoking cigars.
John: "Man, the case of Budweiser was bad, but I shouldn't have had that second Arturo Fuente last night, I really stunk up the house with my Cigar Farts this morning."

Mike: "John had a bad case of the Cigar Farts this morning. Must have been another night of Bud Heavy and heaters on the rooftop deck last night".
by Arturo Fuente December 23, 2011
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Clinton Cigar

An act in which involves putting a cigar, cigarette, cigarillo, joint, etc. in a woman's vagina.
Mr. Clinton: Huh Huh, put it in there.
Ms. Lewinsky: You mean the Clinton cigar?
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Greasy Cigar

3 KFC Chips wrapped in KFC Chicken skin preferably from a keel or a breast piece. Dunked in KFC Chicken gravy.
The Greasy Cigar is quite simply the greatest tasting fast food delight you can ever imagine. FACT
by Lee Founder of the Big GC March 10, 2011
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Eastlake Cigar

A heterosexual act of love in which a male inserts his penis into a female's mouth and ejaculates inside of it, after having anal sex.
Patricia did not want her boyfriend to ejaculate inside of her butt, so she requested an Eastlake Cigar instead.
by BlisterGypsy June 3, 2015
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