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chainsmoke

chainsmoke 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 chainsmoke

third-person singular presentchainsmokes
present participlechainsmoking
past participlechainsmoked
pastchainsmoked

Questions about chainsmoke

What is chainsmoke the alternative form of?
Chainsmoke is the alternative form of chain-smoke.

Words near chainsmoke in the dictionary

  1. chainsets
  2. chainshot
  3. chainshots
  4. chainsmith
  5. chainsmiths
  6. chainsmoke
  7. chainsmoked
  8. chainsmokes
  9. chainsmoking
  10. chainsmokings
  11. chainsorter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chainsmoke (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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