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verb

Smoke out v. t.

To drive from a refuge or hiding place by causing dense smoke or other noxious fumes to permeate the refuge; as, the police smoked out the bank robbers with tear gas.

Hence: (metaphorical) To expose; to force into public view; to reveal in its true light; as, the reporter smoked out the waffling candidate with a direct question, exposing his view on the issue.

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Etymology of 'Smoke out'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Smoke out" Quotes from Famous Books

... since his return to these parts, exactly in that spot, was considerable, for there he might have been found at some period of the afternoon at least three times a week. He would sit on this rail for half an hour looking down at the sluggish waters of the little river, rolling the smoke out of his mouth at long intervals, and thinking perhaps of the great book which he was supposed to be writing. As he sat there now, he suddenly heard voices and laughter, and presently three girls came round the corner of ...

— The American Senator • Anthony Trollope

... and he used to dream about the child, in the tobacco twilight, and how they planned his future, Rudd's soul learned to follow the pipe smoke out from the porch, over the fence and to disappear beyond the horizons of the town and the sharp definition of the graveyard fence. He became addicted to dreams, habituated to dealing in futurities that could never ...

— In a Little Town • Rupert Hughes

... a good pull at my cigar, and blew the smoke out in a cloud slowly to gain time. "I don't think I ...

— The Great K. & A. Robbery • Paul Liechester Ford

... a long puff of smoke out of his pipe. "If you are convinced of that, you are one of the wisest men I have met with, young as you are. I must have been twice your age before I got so far; and even now, I am sometimes fool enough to doubt the only thing I was ever sure of ...

— Septimius Felton - or, The Elixir of Life • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... fox is of opinion that his hole in the hill is remarkably cozy. When my master's nag knows that his head is toward home he wants no whip, but thinks it best to put on all steam; and I am always of the same mind, for the way home, to me, is the best bit of road in the country. I like to see the smoke out of my own chimney better than the fire on another man's hearth; there's something so beautiful in the way in which it curls up among the trees. Cold potatoes on my own table taste better than roast meat at my ...

— Brave Men and Women - Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs • O.E. Fuller

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