chain-smoker
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈtʃeɪnˌsmoʊkər/
:
fumador empedernido
- My uncle is a chain-smoker, often lighting a new cigarette from the one he just finished.
She didn't look that healthy 'cause she's a chain smoker and she was really losing her son.
- She didn't look that healthy 'cause she's a chain smoker and she was really losing her son.
- So my grandma and parent everyone around me growing up chain smokers.
- I'm Zephyr and I'm the third, third chain smoker.
Examples
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The dad heaved a rough exhale—a chain-smoker who'd live forever—and hung up.
Fiction book (2000) -
If you're a chain smoker, your vital health signs may not be looking too fantastic.
Blog text (23) -
Have you always been a chain smoker?
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The guy could be a chain smoker.
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A chain smoker, he could still run us all to ground.
Fiction book (1998) -
The mother was a chain smoker, and it played into the plot.
Fiction book (1998) -
Our parents and grandparents were almost all chain smokers.
Blog text (32) -
She was a chain-smoker and I always worried about her.
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He is a chain smoker.
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Mr. Sackett was a gray-faced, harried chain smoker, nails bitten down to the quick, haunted by ghosts.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
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1.3
A person who regularly uses tobacco, for example cigarettes
2
2.3
A person who regularly lights and inhales cigarettes
Antonyms
How Often
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3.5
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2.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word chain-smoker comes from chain and smoker, and it gives the image of cigarettes 'linked' like a chain, one after the other. That's why a chain-smoker is someone who smokes continuously, often lighting a new cigarette from the end of the last.