CHAIN-SMOKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chain-smoker mean? 

• CHAIN-SMOKER (noun)
  The noun CHAIN-SMOKER has 1 sense:

1. a heavy smoker (usually of cigarettes) who lights one off of another

  Familiarity information: CHAIN-SMOKER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHAIN-SMOKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A heavy smoker (usually of cigarettes) who lights one off of another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("chain-smoker" is a kind of...):

smoker; tobacco user (a person who smokes tobacco)

Derivation:

chain-smoke (smoke one cigarette after another; light one cigarette from the preceding one)