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  • noun A cigarette containing clove as well as tobacco. Originates from Indonesia.

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Examples

  • It is believed the name kretek, the Indonesian word for the cigarettes, comes from the crackling sound the cloves make when they are burned.

    Sampoerna Puts In Bid For Famous London Casino 2006

  • The company, whose brands include Dunhill, Kent, Lucky Strike and Pall Mall, has failed to build a large following in Indonesia, where 90% of consumers smoke pungent "kretek" cigarettes, produced by companies like Sampoerna and Bentoel from a mixture of cloves and tobacco.

    BAT Taps Growing Indonesian Market 2009

  • BAT hopes to strike lucky in Indonesia as it pays £300m for 'kretek' tobacco firm

    WN.com - Business News 2009

  • Boing Boing reader/commenter catastrophegirl, commenting in a thread about an enraged hillbilly user of flavored chewing tobacco, points to her Flickr photoset documenting her quest to make DIY kretek (clove cigarettes).

    Boing Boing 2009

  • The sound and smell of Indonesia: seconds after the airplane door opened on our first arrival in Jakarta, my wife and I were swimming in hot, wet Javanese air that carried the sweet smoke of clove-flavored kretek cigarettes and the tones of brass gamelan gongs.

    The Ottoman Mystique 2008

  • The sound and smell of Indonesia: seconds after the airplane door opened on our first arrival in Jakarta, my wife and I were swimming in hot, wet Javanese air that carried the sweet smoke of clove-flavored kretek cigarettes and the tones of brass gamelan gongs.

    The Ottoman Mystique 2008

  • She lights an Indonesian cigarette—a kretek—waves out the match and drops it in a little green dish full of cherry pits.

    The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010

  • BAT's existing local unit in Indonesia, which doesn't sell kretek cigarettes, has a 2% market share.

    BAT Taps Growing Indonesian Market 2009

  • BAT decided the only way to build sizable market share in Indonesia was to take over a kretek maker, said Simon Millson, a Hong Kong-based spokesman for the company.

    BAT Taps Growing Indonesian Market 2009

  • He has also amassed a quirky collection of that quintessential Indonesian collectible: the kretek, or clove cigarette, pack.

    The Collector: Butet Kartaredjasa 2009

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