Definition of "beedi"

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

1990, Charles Bukowski, letter, 15 September, in On Writing, Canongate 2016, p. 198

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] and dances wild … that is the Kaali I had embodied for the film.”

2022 June 6, Hannah Ellis-Petersen, “Indian director receives threats over film poster of goddess with Pride flag”, in The Guardian‎, Guardian Media Group, retrieved 2022-06-06