chain-smoke

1. 1.

   smoke one cigarette after another; light one cigarette from the preceding one

   Broadersmoke

Questions about chain-smoke

What does chain-smoke mean?

chain-smoke means "smoke one cigarette after another; light one cigarette from the preceding one".

How many syllables are in chain-smoke?

chain-smoke has 2 syllables: chain--smoke. The stress falls on "smoke".

Is chain-smoke a common word?

chain-smoke is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.