Definition of "chain-smoking" [chain-smoking]

• Present participle of chain-smoke. (verb)

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• "Even when having dinner with friends, he seemed withdrawn and often sat quietly chain-smoking as others chattered nosily around him."
• "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."
• "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."