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chain-smoke

chain-smoke verb: to smoke cigarettes by continuously lighting one from the glowing end of the previous one.

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.

Forms of chain-smoke

third-person singular presentchain-smokes
present participlechain-smoking
past participlechain-smoked
pastchain-smoked
alternative formchain smoke
alternative formchainsmoke

Words formed from chain-smoke

Questions about chain-smoke

What does chain-smoke mean?
Chain-smoke means to smoke cigarettes by continuously lighting one from the glowing end of the previous one.
What part of speech is chain-smoke?
Chain-smoke is a verb.
What is the past tense of chain-smoke?
The past tense of chain-smoke is chain-smoked.

Words near chain-smoke in the dictionary

  1. chain-melted state
  2. chain-of-responsibility pattern
  3. chain-of-responsibility patterns
  4. chain-shot
  5. chain-shots
  6. chain-smoke
  7. chain-smoked
  8. chain-smoker
  9. chain-smokers
  10. chain-smokes
  11. chain-smoking

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