SMOKE SB/STH


Meaning of SMOKE SB/STH in English

out

1.

to force sb/sth to come out of a place by filling it with smoke :

to smoke out wasps from a nest

2.

to take action to discover where sb is hiding or to make a secret publicly known :

The police are determined to smoke out the leaders of the gang.

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне.