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chain smoke

chain smoke is the alternative form 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.

Forms of chain smoke

third-person singular presentchain smokes
present participlechain smoking
past participlechain smoked
pastchain smoked

Questions about chain smoke

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

Words near chain smoke in the dictionary

  1. chain silicate
  2. chain silicates
  3. chain sinnet
  4. chain sinnets
  5. chain slap
  6. chain smoke
  7. chain smoked
  8. chain smoker
  9. chain smokers
  10. chain smokes
  11. chain smoking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chain smoke (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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