Usually means: Continuously smoking one cigarette after.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word chain-smoke:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. chain-smoke: Merriam-Webster
  2. chain-smoke: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chain-smoke: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chain-smoke, chain-smoke: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chain-smoke: Vocabulary.com
  6. chain-smoke: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. chain-smoke: Wiktionary
  8. chain-smoke: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. chain-smoke: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. chain-smoke: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. chain-smoke: Dictionary.com
  12. chain-smoke: Rhymezone
  13. chain-smoke: FreeDictionary.org
  14. chain-smoke: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. chain-smoke: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chain-smoke: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See chain-smoked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To smoke cigarettes by continuously lighting one from the glowing end of the previous one.
verb:  (intransitive) To smoke tobacco cigarettes frequently.
verb:  (transitive) To smoke by continuously lighting one from another.

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