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  • noun A person who chain-smokes.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

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Examples

  • Minelli laughed when I mentioned the remark and noted that, for many years, Brunner had been a chain-smoker.

    Death Becomes Him 2010

  • Minelli laughed when I mentioned the remark and noted that, for many years, Brunner had been a chain-smoker.

    Death Becomes Him 2010

  • She whispers something like Are you close baby? in a hoarse chain-smoker whisper.

    Monkeytown excerpt 3 Chris Vola 2011

  • THINGS I DIDN'T SEE COMING: With only one episode to go, Mad Men delivers one of its greatest surprises to date, as notorious chain-smoker Don Draper publishes a one-page "Why I'm Quitting Tobacco" manifesto in The New York Times to (as Peggy quotes him) "change the conversation" about the firm's persona non grata status since the Lucky Strike defection.

    Matt's TV Week in Review 2010

  • We also lost a playwright, a rebel, a rockstar, a chain-smoker, a renowned artist, a non-profit leader, and one of the most beloved presidents in history, all at once.

    Lucas Kavner: Tracking Vaclav Havel: From Orwell To Vermont And Into Prague Lucas Kavner 2011

  • I had once been a chain-smoker myself, but I had never seen an addiction so deep.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • I had once been a chain-smoker myself, but I had never seen an addiction so deep.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • Moreover, Bobby was an alcoholic and chain-smoker, so his output fell off rapidly after he hit 30.

    Matthew Yglesias » Change the Story 2010

  • - Despite a background in public health work, Hopkins was a lifelong chain-smoker and coffee drinker – a classic A-type personality who lived in his office and usually looked “as though he had spent the previous night sleeping in a hayloft.”

    Matthew Yglesias » Commerce Cabinet Crisis VII: Harry Hopkins 2009

  • And he was a chain-smoker, so whenever he was shooting a scene, there'd be an ashtray nearby.

    Endeavour: an inspector recalled 2012

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