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 chain-smoked cigarettes and sipped tequila throughout the one-hour set …

—Neal Justin

chain-smoker

ˈchān-ˌsmō-kər 

noun

Examples of chain-smoke in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Which suits the performatively jaded teens, who chain-smoke at restaurants with white tablecloths and traverse the city without curfew or constraint. — Judy Berman, Time, 5 Aug. 2026

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