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chewing tobacco

noun

Definitions

  1. Tobacco, cut or ground finely, and placed between the cheek and the gum to allow nicotine…

    Tobacco, cut or ground finely, and placed between the cheek and the gum to allow nicotine absorption through the mucous membranes.

    • Take, say a fourth of a pound of chewing tobacco, tear it well to pieces, and put it into a vesssel and pour to it a sufficiency of boiling water....

  2. Tobacco that is cut into strips or shreds, and chewed and then tucked between the cheek…

    Tobacco that is cut into strips or shreds, and chewed and then tucked between the cheek and the gum.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for chewing tobacco. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA