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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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chain smoker

One who smokes continually by lighting a new cigarette from the one being finished, as in Before they forbade smoking, bridge tournaments often attracted players who are chain smokers. [c. 1930]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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