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chain-smoke

  [cheyn-smohk]
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–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

Related forms:
chain smoker, chain-smoker, noun
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chain-smoke   (chān'smōk')
v.   chain-smoked, chain-smok·ing, chain-smokes

v.   intr.
To smoke continually, as by lighting the next cigarette from the previous one.
v.   tr.
To smoke (cigarettes, for example) in continuing succession.
chain smoker n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
chain(-smoke)

  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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