chain-smoker

1. 1.

   a heavy smoker (usually of cigarettes) who lights one off of another

   Broadersmoker

Questions about chain-smoker

What does chain-smoker mean?

chain-smoker means "a heavy smoker (usually of cigarettes) who lights one off of another".

How many syllables are in chain-smoker?

chain-smoker has 3 syllables and divides as chain--smo-ker under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is chain-smoker a common word?

chain-smoker 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.