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chain smoke

[cheyn-smohk]

chain-smoke

[cheyn-smohk]
verb (used without object), verb (used with object), -smoked, -smoking.
to smoke continually, as by lighting one cigarette, cigar, etc., from the preceding one.

Origin:
1930–35

chain smoker, chain-smok·er, noun
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chain(-smoke) definition


  1. in.
    to smoke cigarette after cigarette. (As if each cigarette were a link in a chain.) : I never wanted to chain-smoke, but I got addicted.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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