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chain smoking

chain smoking is the alternative form of chain-smoking.

chain smoking is the present participle of chain smoke.

Meaning of chain-smoking

Adjective

chain-smoking

  1. Of or pertaining someone who chain-smokes.

See all 2 meanings of chain-smoking

Forms of chain smoking

pluralchain smokings

Questions about chain smoking

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

Words near chain smoking in the dictionary

  1. chain smoke
  2. chain smoked
  3. chain smoker
  4. chain smokers
  5. chain smokes
  6. chain smoking
  7. chain smokings
  8. chain stay
  9. chain stays
  10. chain stitch
  11. chain stitches

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