Meaning of beedi | Babel Free

Definitions

A thin, often flavored, Indian cigarette made of tobacco wrapped in a tendu leaf.

Equivalents

Examples

“I always write with the music on and a bottle of good red. And smoke Mangalore Ganesh beedies.”

“I walk in, talking to friendly faces in my aces / Drinking beer, smoking beedis in the back where the bass is”

“She said: “In rural Tamil Nadu, the state I come from, Kaali is believed to be a pagan goddess. She eats meat cooked in goat’s blood, drinks arrack, smokes beedi [cigarettes]^([sic]) and dances wild … that is the Kaali I had embodied for the film.””

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