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- noun Plural form of
chain-smoker .
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Examples
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But what might separate the chippers from the chain-smokers?
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But what might separate the chippers from the chain-smokers?
Archive 2009-06-01 JLK 2009
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All those tiresome, monologuing chain-smokers aren't in on the joke?
Flippin’ through Previews – February 2008 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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I was particularly amused by the actors, portraying present-day, foul-mouthed, drunken chain-smokers somehow transported into the future, still wearing their Hawaiian shirts, ball caps, and briefs.
Archive 2006-10-29 2006
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I was particularly amused by the actors, portraying present-day, foul-mouthed, drunken chain-smokers somehow transported into the future, still wearing their Hawaiian shirts, ball caps, and briefs.
Archive 2006-10-29 2006
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Probably they were sexual rather than creative waves, but later she recalled that just before she woke, a brush in her brain added a touch of naples yellow (patron saint of Neapolitan chain-smokers) to keep the whites from being stark.
Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990
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France may count more than its share of iconic chain-smokers - from
NYT > Home Page By SCOTT SAYARE 2011
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Roost, you wonder if Leonard hasn't employed a battalion of chain-smokers just out of camera shot to amplify the effect.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Due to the decline of smoking in Japan (two decades ago all my Japanese uncles and cousins were chain-smokers, and now only one cousin, heavily stressed, smokes), there is a fresh market in China for the Tokai Tobacco Filter "bio-pipe" at an affordable 4 yuan/US$. 60 (if you multiple this by 600 million Chinese smokers, you are talking real money, to paraphrase the late Senator Everett Dirksen statement about the U.S. government budget).
Forbes.com: News 2010
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Due to the decline of smoking in Japan (two decades ago all my Japanese uncles and cousins were chain-smokers, and now only one cousin, heavily stressed, smokes), there is a fresh market in China for the Tokai Tobacco Filter "bio-pipe" at an affordable 4 yuan/US$. 60 (if you multiple this by 600 million Chinese smokers, you are talking real money, to paraphrase the late Senator Everett Dirksen statement about the U.S. government budget).
Forbes.com: News 2010
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