To provide the subject cutter designed to carry out a cutting operation with two cutting blades similarly to that for a cutter with three cutting blades, and enabling the cutting blades to be moved by the aid of the motion of an operative piece left and right so as to be accommodated to a relatively small size.

This cutter for a cigar or the like is so designed as to detachably link two cutting blades 2 to each other each with a nearly semicircular blade on the tip rectilinearly along an arc-shaped locus, and insert an object to be cut into between the two blades being in detachment to cut the object in a tearing-off fashion.