chain-smoke

verb

ˈchān-ˈsmōk 

chain-smoked; chain-smoking; chain-smokes

transitive + intransitive

: to smoke something, especially cigarettes, continually

… the modest kitchen where she sits chain-smoking at a cluttered table.

—Mark Binelli

He wore steel-rimmed eyeglasses, chain-smoked cigarettes, and behaved like a cross between General Douglas MacArthur and a movie producer's dream of a dynamic newspaperman.

—Russell Baker

chain-smoker

ˈchān-ˌsmō-kər 

noun

Word History

First Known Use

1890, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for chain-smoke

• awoke
• baroque
• bespoke
• colloque
• convoke
• evoke
• invoke
• keystroke
• kinfolk
• kinsfolk
• menfolk
• provoke

Kids Definition

chain-smoke

verb

ˈchān-ˈsmōk

: to smoke cigarettes one right after another

chain-smoker

-ˌsmō-kər

noun