chain-smoke

[cheyn-smohk]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with or without object)

chain-smoked, chain-smoking

to smoke continually, as by lighting one cigarette, cigar, etc., from the preceding one.

chain-smoke

verb

to smoke (cigarettes, etc) continually, esp lighting one from the preceding one

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Other Word Forms

chain smoker noun
chain-smoker noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of chain-smoke¹

First recorded in 1930–35

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Simultaneously cocksure and anxious, he chain-smoked throughout the set, while delivering verbose lyrics about modern love and digital disconnection.

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Academy Award winner Billy Bob Thornton, who plays chain-smoking crisis manager Tommy Norris in Taylor Sheridan’s latest hit “Landman,” seems like a guy who can’t be intimidated.

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There, the atmosphere hardened from a succession of chain-smoking officers, with whom I had to negotiate in my broken Turkish.

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A second Russian intelligence team circled, including a chain-smoking blonde woman referred to only as "Red Sparrow".

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But even Thornton, who plays chain-smoking crisis manager Tommy Norris in the series, is overwhelmed by the impressive ratings of “Landman,” which aired its Season 1 finale on Sunday.

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