CHAIN-SMOKE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (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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