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smoker's cough

smoker's cough noun: a persistent cough resulting from habitual smoking.

Noun

smoker's cough (plural smoker's coughs)

  1. A persistent cough resulting from habitual smoking.
    • At home he was never without a cigarette, and, over the years, he developed a smoker’s cough and labored breathing.2005, Bob Knopes, Any Damn Fool Can Be a Farmer: Growing Up on a Wisconsin Farm, Badger Books Inc., →ISBN, page 147

Forms of smoker's cough

pluralsmoker's coughs

Questions about smoker's cough

What does smoker's cough mean?
Smoker's cough means a persistent cough resulting from habitual smoking.
What part of speech is smoker's cough?
Smoker's cough is a noun.
What is the plural of smoker's cough?
The plural of smoker's cough is smoker's coughs.

Words near smoker's cough in the dictionary

  1. smoker
  2. smoker's bow
  3. smoker's bows
  4. smoker's chair
  5. smoker's chairs
  6. smoker's cough
  7. smoker's coughs
  8. smoker's face
  9. smoker's lines
  10. smoker's lung
  11. smokeress

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