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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To smoke continually, as by lighting the next cigarette from the previous one.
  • intransitive verb To smoke (cigarettes, for example) in continuing succession.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb intransitive To smoke cigarettes by continuously lighting one from the glowing end of the previous one.
  • verb intransitive To smoke tobacco cigarettes frequently.
  • verb transitive To smoke by continuously lighting one from another.

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

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

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