chain-smoker

[cheyn-smohk]

chain-smoke

[cheyn-smohk]
verb (used without object), verb (used with object), chain-smoked, chain-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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chain-smoker definition


  1. n.
    someone who smokes cigarette after cigarette. : She was a chain-smoker for thirty years, and then suddenly, boom. She's gone.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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