chain-smoke

• Verbe utilisé pour décrire le fait de fumer des cigarettes de manière continue et rapide, souvent en allumant une nouvelle cigarette à partir du mégot de la précédente.

A verb used to describe the act of smoking cigarettes continuously, often lighting one from the butt of another.

1. Smoke continuouslyB2informal

   To smoke one cigarette immediately after another, often lighting the next from the previous one.

   Fumer en chaîne

   • He chain-smoked throughout the entire meeting.
   • She chain-smokes when she is stressed about work.
   • The detective chain-smoked while waiting for the suspect.