chain-smoke
[cheyn-smohk]
- to smoke continually, as by lighting one cigarette, cigar, etc., from the preceding one.
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Origin of chain-smoke
First recorded in 1930–35
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The kind of place where lines of long-haul coach buses idle in the parking lot while the drivers cat-nap or chain-smoke.
They carry their baguettes, down their wine, and chain-smoke their cigarettes, yet they don't seem to ever put on a pound.
Dice cracks a window so he can chain-smoke Marlboro Lights, using a glass of water as an ashtray.
chain-smoke
- to smoke (cigarettes, etc) continually, esp lighting one from the preceding one
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