chained

To be doing something because you don't have any other choice, or because you are too meek and let someone else make choices for you.

Bob is chained to terrible soap operas every night because his wife always insists they watch them.

Pat is chained to working long hours because he doesn't have the guts to quit his job and get a better one.

by Bloopy July 4, 2006

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chain

a unit of currency equivalent to ten racks or $60,000 USD

Yo that bot spent three chains on his new whip and crashed it as soon as he backed it out. God damn.

by JShizzle from Troy January 30, 2019

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chaining

Following related links on websites like Wikipedia or YouTube after you look something up until you end up on something completely unrelated to what you were initially looking for.

As a verb: to chain

"I went to look up the Columbia shuttle disaster but after an hour of chaining I somehow ended up on Elizabeth Bathory."

John: Did you get that report done?
Steve: Nope, I wasted the whole night chaining on Wikipedia.

by Xeno the Blind April 19, 2008

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Chain

A chain is a unit of length; it measures 66 feet. The chain in wildland firefighting is used as the measure of the rate of spread in chains per hour.

It is also used a lot by the USDA Forest Service by hand crews to see how far they have dug line or how far they have to go.

"How much farther are we going?"

"About 4 chains." (264 ft.)

"The wildland fire is spreading at 40 chains an hour." (2640 ft. or 1/2 a mile in 1 hour)

by Alistair MacIlherron September 24, 2009

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