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chain-smoker

chain-smoker is the alternative form of chain smoker.

Meaning of chain smoker

Noun

chain smoker (plural chain smokers)

  1. One who smokes continuously, by lighting one cigarette when they finish another, as in a chain.
  2. One who habitually smokes excessively.

Forms of chain-smoker

pluralchain-smokers

Questions about chain-smoker

What is chain-smoker the alternative form of?
Chain-smoker is the alternative form of chain smoker.

Words near chain-smoker in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chain-smoker (page history and authors); chain smoker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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