What does smoke out mean?
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smoke out
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Princeton's WordNet
smoke outverb
drive out with smoke
"smoke out the bees"
GCIDE
Smoke outverb
To drive from a refuge or hiding place by causing dense smoke or other noxious fumes to permeate the refuge; as, the police smoked out the bank robbers with tear gas.
Wiktionary
smoke outverb
to drive out using smoke
smoke outverb
to expose
ChatGPT
smoke out
To "smoke out" generally means to force someone or something to leave a hiding place by creating a disturbance or by making continuing concealment uncomfortable. It can also mean to expose someone's true intentions, identity, or secrets. The term originally referred to the practice of smoking animals out of their dens.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of smoke out in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of smoke out in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of smoke out in a Sentence
The death of Carol Glover was an unnecessary tragedy. So many things went wrong. Radios didn't work. Ventilation fans didn't get smoke out, the ventilation on the trains themselves sucked smoke into the trains.
You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.
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