smoke someone out
1smoke someone out — smoke (someone) out to force someone to stop hiding. He didn t just walk into the police station and surrender, we had to smoke him out of hiding. To prevent such attacks, you have to smoke out the bad guys before they reach their targets …
2smoke someone/thing out — drive someone or something out of a place by using smoke. → smoke …
3smoke out — smoke (someone) out to force someone to stop hiding. He didn t just walk into the police station and surrender, we had to smoke him out of hiding. To prevent such attacks, you have to smoke out the bad guys before they reach their targets …
4smoke out — verb drive out with smoke smoke out the bees • Hypernyms: ↑rout out, ↑drive out, ↑force out, ↑rouse • Verb Frames: Somebody s something Somebody s somebody …
5smoke — 1 noun 1 (U) grey gas that is produced by something burning: Clouds of black smoke belched from the building. | cigarette smoke 2 (countable usually singular) an act of smoking a cigarette etc: a cup of coffee and a smoke 3 (C) slang a cigarette… …
6smoke — noun 1》 a visible suspension of carbon or other particles in the air, typically one emitted from a burning substance. 2》 an act of smoking tobacco. ↘informal a cigarette or cigar. 3》 (the Smoke or the Big Smoke) Brit. a big city, especially… …
7Smoke, second-hand — Environmental tobacco smoke that is inhaled involuntarily or passively by someone who is not smoking. Environmental tobacco smoke is generated from the sidestream (the burning end) of a cigarette, pipe or cigar or from the exhaled mainstream (the …
8smoke out — PHRASAL VERB If you smoke out someone who is hiding, you discover them and make them publicly known. [V n P] The committee have tried dozens of different ways to smoke him out. [V P n (not pron)] ...technology to smoke out tax evaders …
9smoke signal — smoke signals N COUNT: usu pl If someone such as a politician or businessman sends out smoke signals, they give an indication of their views and intentions. This indication is often not clear and needs to be worked out. The smoke signals coming… …
10smoke — smoke1 W3S3 [sməuk US smouk] n [: Old English; Origin: smoca] 1.) [U] white, grey or black gas that is produced by something burning ▪ clouds of black smoke ▪ cigarette smoke ▪ Smoke from burning fields drifted across nearby roads. ▪ the pall of… …