chain-smoke

[cheyn-smohk]

verb (used with or without object), chain-smoked, chain-smoking.

to smoke continually, as by lighting one cigarette, cigar, etc., from the preceding one.

Origin of chain-smoke

First recorded in 1930–35

Related formschain smoker, chain-smok·er, noun

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Contemporary Examples of chain-smoke

The kind of place where lines of long-haul coach buses idle in the parking lot while the drivers cat-nap or chain-smoke.
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Jeff Campagna
January 6, 2014
They carry their baguettes, down their wine, and chain-smoke their cigarettes, yet they don't seem to ever put on a pound.
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December 17, 2013
Dice cracks a window so he can chain-smoke Marlboro Lights, using a glass of water as an ashtray.
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July 25, 2013

British Dictionary definitions for chain-smoke

chain-smoke

verb

to smoke (cigarettes, etc) continually, esp lighting one from the preceding one

Derived Formschain smoker, noun

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