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chain-smoke

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Definition of chain-smoke

verb

[no object]
  • smoke continually, typically by lighting a cigarette from the stub of the last one smoked: he chain-smoked and drank too much [with object]:he chain-smoked menthol cigarettes (as adjective chain-smoking)morose, chain-smoking soldiers

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chain-smoker

noun

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