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chain-smoke

chain-smoke

English

Alternative forms

  • chain smoke, chainsmoke

Verb

chain-smoke (third-person singular simple present chain-smokes, present participle chain-smoking, simple past and past participle chain-smoked)

  1. (intransitive) To smoke cigarettes by continuously lighting one from the glowing end of the previous one.
  2. (intransitive) To smoke tobacco cigarettes frequently.
  3. (transitive) To smoke by continuously lighting one from another.
    The two of them chain-smoked a dime bag's worth of marijuana.

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