chain-light

verb

chain-light

verb

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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