0 present participle of chain-smoke
1 to smoke cigarettes one after another:
We might also expect to hear it issuing from the bluish lips of an inebriated, chain-smoking existentialist.
For instance, it deals inter alia with the undesirability of showing children chain-smoking.
I have some wonderful memories of her—not least of her chain-smoking in the corridors of power, an odd thing for someone so totally committed to healthcare.
There is a lot to be said about chain-smoking; but it does not fall, in the view of most people, ordinarily within the category of violence.
He is a hard-cursing, chain-smoking misanthrope who formerly worked on a children's television programme.
He is described as a thin, chain-smoking man, and a chronic worrier.
He is a hard-drinking, chain-smoking executive with a shadowy past who has achieved success in advertising.
A chain-smoking perfectionist, she cared about backstory and attractive features.
