ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Chain-smoke

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Chain-smoke is a verb meaning (intransitive) To smoke cigarettes by continuously lighting one from the glowing end of the previous one.

Meaning

(intransitive) To smoke cigarettes by continuously lighting one from the glowing end of the previous one.

More Meanings

  1. (intransitive) To smoke tobacco cigarettes frequently.
  2. (transitive) To smoke by continuously lighting one from another.

Example Sentences

The two of them chain-smoked a dime bag's worth of marijuana.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include light up, smoke, smoken, cigarette, outsmoke, oversmoke.

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