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- verb Present participle of
chain-smoke .
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Examples
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A fact not lost on Jordi's nervously chain-smoking friend Andrés, who declared himself a fanatical culé, the name that Barça fans give themselves.
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Animal rights activists have been talking about scenes of a capuchin monkey chain-smoking cigarettes in The Hangover Part II.
'The Hangover' Sequel Features Same Crude Humor but New Location 2011
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This is the story of John Devine stuck in a small town in the eerie landscape of Southeast Ireland, worried over by his single, chain-smoking, bible-quoting mother.
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His chain-smoking dad, Roy, stout and good-natured, loves to talk about how Jesus, once crucified, rose gloriously from the dead.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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The title "Blowing Smoke" aptly applies, as the characters all literally blow smoke, chain-smoking cigarettes and figuratively, deceiving, joking, pretending with one another.
Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: Don Strikes Back Samantha Zalaznick 2010
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The one sad part of viewing Hicks live is seeing his incessant chain-smoking onstage while being all too aware that his life would be cut drastically short due to cancer.
Robbie Gennet: Review: Bill Hicks-The Essential Collection Robbie Gennet 2010
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Finally, we dragged Mason away from the "clown house" (complete with massively overweight carnie woman chain-smoking in charge of the tickets) and more sliding, and went home for "hotdish" dinner.
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009
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Even when having dinner with friends, he seemed withdrawn and often sat quietly chain-smoking as others chattered nosily around him.
'Baby Doc' returned - like he told me he would Marjorie Valbrun 2011
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The one sad part of viewing Hicks live is seeing his incessant chain-smoking onstage while being all too aware that his life would be cut drastically short due to cancer.
Robbie Gennet: Review: Bill Hicks-The Essential Collection Robbie Gennet 2010
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He was screaming at the top of his chain-smoking lungs about how Bubbe had tricked him.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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