"smoke like a chimney" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-smoke like a chimney.ogg Forms: smokes like a chimney [present, singular, third-person], smoking like a chimney [participle, present], smoked like a chimney [participle, past], smoked like a chimney [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} smoke like a chimney (third-person singular simple present smokes like a chimney, present participle smoking like a chimney, simple past and past participle smoked like a chimney)
  1. (informal, simile, idiomatic) To smoke tobacco frequently. Tags: idiomatic, informal Translations (to smoke tobacco frequently): polttaa kuin korsteeni (Finnish), fumer comme une cheminée (French), fumer comme un pompier (French), fumer comme un Turc (French), fumer comme un sapeur (French), fumer comme un dragon (French), fumer comme une locomotive (French), rauchen wie ein Schlot (German), καπνίζω σαν αράπης (kapnízo san arápis) (Greek), καπνίζω σαν φουγάρο (kapnízo san fougáro) (Greek), fumare come una ciminiera (Italian), fumare come un turco (Italian), palić jak smok [imperfective] (Polish), palić jak lokomotywa [imperfective] (Polish), a fuma ca un turc (Romanian), fumar como un carretero (Spanish), fumar como chino en quiebra (Spanish), röka som en borstbindare (Swedish), baca gibi tüttürmek (Turkish), fosur fosur sigara içmek (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "to smoke tobacco frequently",
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "to smoke tobacco frequently",
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      "code": "el",
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      "sense": "to smoke tobacco frequently",
      "word": "καπνίζω σαν φουγάρο"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to smoke tobacco frequently",
      "word": "fumare come una ciminiera"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to smoke tobacco frequently",
      "word": "fumare come un turco"
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      "sense": "to smoke tobacco frequently",
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      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "to smoke tobacco frequently",
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      "word": "palić jak lokomotywa"
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      "sense": "to smoke tobacco frequently",
      "word": "a fuma ca un turc"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "sense": "to smoke tobacco frequently"
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      "sense": "to smoke tobacco frequently",
      "word": "fumar como un carretero"
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      "sense": "to smoke tobacco frequently",
      "word": "fumar como chino en quiebra"
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      "sense": "to smoke tobacco frequently",
      "word": "röka som en borstbindare"
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to smoke tobacco frequently",
      "word": "baca gibi tüttürmek"
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