chain-light

verb

To light a new cigarette with the burning stub of one's previous cigarette.

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Meanings

verbchain-light (third-person singular simple present chain-lights, present participle chain-lighting, simple past and past participle chain-lit or chain-lighted)

present singular third person chain-lights · participle present chain-lighting · participle past chain-lit · past chain-lit · participle past chain-lighted · past chain-lighted

  1. To light a new cigarette with the burning stub of one's previous cigarette.

    He chain-lit a fresh cigarette and flicked the old butt, still smouldering, into the steel ash-can beside his drawing table.

    1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 32
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chain-light,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chain-light.

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