beedi

[ bee-dee ]

noun

plural beedis.

1. a variant of bidi.

Example Sentences

Saw her walk to the town, along the narrow lane which ran past the tannery, following it to where it broadened with beedi shops along one side and tawdry stalls on the other, where men with bold eyes lounged smoking or drinking from frothing toddy pots.

From Literature

The fruit seller smoked his beedi and occasionally sang a few lines in a croaky voice.

From New York Times

Zaheer’s friend Naseem Ahmed was standing in the lane across the beedi stall at the time, Naseem said.

From Reuters

He described seeing Zaheer buy the beedi and sit down on a ledge next to the shop.

From Reuters

It's a collection of enlarged photographs of shirt pockets of men bulging with the weight of ballpoint pens, leaking pens, mobile phones, spectacle cases and beedi, the traditional hand-rolled Indian cigarettes.

From BBC