smoke someone or something out Definition

smoke
noun

1. A visible cloud given off by a burning substance, and consisting of tiny particles of carbon dispersed in a gas or a mixture of gases, eg air.

Thesaurus: exhaust, fume, smog, mist, vapour, fog.
2. Visible fumes or vapours.
3. A cloud or column of fumes.
4. colloq
The act or process of smoking tobacco
Example: Got time for a smoke?
5. colloq
Something that can be smoked, such as a cigarette or cigar.
6. See the Big Smoke.

Form: the Smoke

verb smoked, smoking

intr
1. To give off smoke, visible fumes or vapours.

Thesaurus: burn, fume, vapourize, smoulder, vent.
tr & intr
2. To inhale and then exhale the smoke from burning tobacco or other substances in a cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
tr & intr
3. To do this frequently, especially as a habit that is hard to break.
4. To cause oneself to be in a specific state by smoking.
5. To send or release smoke (especially in the wrong direction).

Example: Oil lamps have a tendency to smoke
6. To preserve or flavour food by exposing it to smoke.
7. To fumigate or sterilize.
8. To blacken or taint by smoke.
9. To dry with smoke.

Derivative: smokable
adj

Fit or able to be smoked.

Idiom: go up in smoke

To be completely destroyed by fire.

colloq
Said of plans, etc: to be ruined completely; to come to nothing.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon smoca.

Phrasal Verb: smoke someone or something out

To uncover them or it by persistent searching or investigation.

Phrasal Verb: smoke something out

To drive (an animal) out into the open by filling its burrow with smoke.