chain-smoking in English

verb
1
smoke continually, especially by lighting a new cigarette from the butt of the last one smoked.
I spent my working hours chain-smoking cigarettes and looking through the packs of developed photographs before the customers returned for them.

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1. The gag was that each pair were opposites: a fat, lazy, chain - smoking slob would swap with a fastidious, svelte, house-proud obsessive.

2. The only exception was a volatile affair with George Sand, a domineering, chain-smoking French novelist five years his senior, which began hesitantly in 18

3. 27 The only exception was a volatile affair with George Sand, a domineering, chain-smoking French novelist five years his senior, which began hesitantly in 18

4. Breathed furthered his fame with his subsequent creation of Bill the Cat, a Garfield ripoff, who was the exact oppisite of Opus in that he represented the scum of Americ a- Bill was a drug addicted, alchohol chugging, chain smoking rocker who had been in and out of detox