Expose, 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]
smoke out
| Idioms: smoke out |
| WordNet: smoke out |
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The verb has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
drive out with smoke
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| DMX: The Smoke Out Festival Presents (Music Film) |
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Mentioned in
- smoke (Idiom)
- Body Count Featuring Ice-T: 6th Annual Smoke Out (2003 Music Film)
- DMX: The Smoke Out Festival Presents (Music Film)
- effume
- The Smoke Out (2001 Album by Los Marijuanos)
- Pennywise: Smoke out Festival (Film)
- One on One: Wiseguy (TV Episode) (1987 Drama TV Episode)
- Mind Games: The A-Team (TV Episode) (1985 TV Episode)
- magic smoke (computer jargon)
- Under the Tonto Rim (1947 Western Film)
- Range Rider: Smoke Out (1924 Western Film)
- Hot Styles: The A-Team (TV Episode) (1984 TV Episode)
- pluff
- The Way Things Work: How a Chimney Works (Film)
