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CHAIN-SMOKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chain-smoke mean? 

CHAIN-SMOKE (verb)
  The verb CHAIN-SMOKE has 1 sense:

1. smoke one cigarette after another; light one cigarette from the preceding oneplay

  Familiarity information: CHAIN-SMOKE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHAIN-SMOKE (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Smoke one cigarette after another; light one cigarette from the preceding one

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "chain-smoke" is one way to...):

smoke (inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

chain-smoker (a heavy smoker (usually of cigarettes) who lights one off of another)


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