"chain-smoke" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: chain-smokes [present, singular, third-person], chain-smoking [participle, present], chain-smoked [participle, past], chain-smoked [past]
Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Smoking
    Sense id: en-chain-smoke-en-verb-K7TqV-Jz Disambiguation of Smoking: 37 40 24 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 62 6 33 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 55 6 39 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 56 11 33 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 57 10 33
  2. (intransitive) To smoke tobacco cigarettes frequently. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Smoking Translations (to smoke cigarettes frequently): kæderyge (Danish), fumer à la chaîne (Français), fuma țigară după țigară (Romanian), fumar compulsivamente (Spanish), kedjeröka (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-chain-smoke-en-verb-9tNAWaL- Disambiguation of Smoking: 37 40 24 Disambiguation of 'to smoke cigarettes frequently': 28 59 13
  3. (transitive) To smoke by continuously lighting one from another. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Smoking
    Sense id: en-chain-smoke-en-verb-VKOhKAvy Disambiguation of Smoking: 37 40 24
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: chain smoke, chainsmoke Derived forms: chain smoker

Inflected forms

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