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smoke out
smoke S0498500 (smōk)n.1. a. A mixture of gases and small suspended particles of soot or other solids, resulting from the burning of materials such as wood or coal.b. A cloud of such gases and suspended particles.c. A vapor, mist, or fume that resembles this.2. Something insubstantial, unreal, or transitory: "What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow, mere smoke of opinion" (Henry David Thoreau).3. a. The act of smoking a form of tobacco: went out for a smoke.b. The duration of this act.4. Informal Tobacco in a form that can be smoked, especially a cigarette: money to buy smokes.5. A substance used in warfare to produce a smokescreen.6. Something used to conceal or obscure.7. A pale to grayish blue to bluish or dark gray.8. Baseball Pitches thrown at high velocity; fast balls: threw a lot of smoke in the early innings.v. smoked, smok·ing, smokes v.intr.1. a. To draw in and exhale smoke from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe: It's forbidden to smoke here.b. To engage in smoking regularly or habitually: He smoked for years before stopping.2. To emit smoke or a smokelike substance: chimneys smoking in the cold air.3. To emit smoke excessively: The station wagon smoked even after the tune-up.4. Slang a. To go or proceed at high speed.b. To play or perform energetically: The band was really smoking in the second set.v.tr.1. a. To draw in and exhale the smoke of (tobacco, for example): I've never smoked a panatela.b. To do so regularly or habitually: I used to smoke filtered cigarettes.2. To preserve (meat or fish) by exposure to the aromatic smoke of burning hardwood, usually after pickling in salt or brine.3. a. To fumigate (a house, for example).b. To expose (animals, especially insects) to smoke in order to immobilize or drive away.4. To expose (glass) to smoke in order to darken or change its color.5. Slang a. To kill; murder.b. To defeat decisively, as in a competition.6. Baseball To throw (a pitch) at high velocity.Phrasal Verb: smoke out1. To force out of a place of hiding or concealment by or as if by the use of smoke.2. To detect and bring to public view; expose or reveal: smoke out a scandal.Idioms: go up in smoke1. To be destroyed by fire.2. To experience complete failure in an attempt to do or achieve something: Our plans to open a bakery went up in smoke when we were unable to secure funding. smoke and mirrors Something that deceives or distorts the truth: Your explanation is nothing but smoke and mirrors.
[Middle English, from Old English smoca.]
smok′a·ble, smoke′a·ble adj.smoke out vb (tr, adverb) 1. to subject to smoke in order to drive out of hiding2. to bring into the open; expose to the public: they smoked out the plot. Thesaurus| Verb | 1.smoke out - drive out with smoke; "smoke out the bees"drive out, rouse, rout out, force out - force or drive out; "The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M." |
smoke out
smoke out1. Literally, to fill a space with smoke to force a person or animal out of hiding. A noun or pronoun can be used between "smoke" and "out." The terrorists are in the center of the building, and will surely kill any officers who try to enter. I think our best bet is to try to smoke them out. Back on the farm, we used to smoke out rats by running a hose from the exhaust pipe of our pickup truck into their nest.2. To expose someone or something and bring it to the attention of the public. A noun or pronoun can be used between "smoke" and "out." We were able to smoke the crooked cop out by hiding a microphone in the back alley where he took bribes from criminals. The newspaper smoked out the government's illegal use of torture to extract information from prisoners during the war.See also: out, smokesmoke outExpose, reveal, bring to public view, as in Reporters thrive on smoking out a scandal. This expression alludes to driving a person or animal out of a hiding place by filling it with smoke. [Late 1500s] See also: out, smokesmoke outv.1. To force someone or something out of a place by or as if by the use of smoke: The groundskeeper smoked out the gopher. The police smoked the fugitives out of their hideout.2. To detect and bring someone or something to public view; expose or reveal someone or something: The media was quick to smoke out the scandal. The ruse was successful in smoking the culprit out.See also: out, smokesmoke someone/something out, toTo drive someone/something into the open. The term alludes to the practice of driving a person or animal out of hiding by starting a fire, so that the smoke will force them out. The term has been used figuratively since the early twentieth century. “Speculators were ‘smoked out’ by a Congressional inquiry” appeared in the New York Times (1948).See also: smoke, someone, somethingsmoke load smoke loadThat fraction of the fuel load which has the potential of producing smoke.MedicalSeesmokesmoke out
Words related to smoke outverb drive out with smokeRelated Words- drive out
- rouse
- rout out
- force out
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