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chain-smoke

verb [I]
 
 
/ˈtʃeɪn.sməʊk/ US  /-smoʊk/

Definition

to smoke cigarettes one after another: Joan's under a lot of pressure these days - she's been chain-smoking ever since her divorce.Tobacco and smoking chain-smoker
 
 
noun [C]
Tobacco and smoking
(Definition of chain-smoke verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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