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chain-smokes

chain-smokes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of chain-smoke.

Meaning of chain-smoke

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.

Questions about chain-smokes

What is chain-smokes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Chain-smokes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of chain-smoke.

Words near chain-smokes in the dictionary

  1. chain-shots
  2. chain-smoke
  3. chain-smoked
  4. chain-smoker
  5. chain-smokers
  6. chain-smokes
  7. chain-smoking
  8. chain-smokings
  9. chain-snatch
  10. chain-snatched
  11. chain-snatches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chain-smokes (page history and authors); chain-smoke (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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