smokeout

[ smohk-out ]

noun
  1. a day during which smokers are encouraged to abstain from smoking as part of a campaign to emphasize the hazards of the practice.

Origin of smokeout

1
Patterned on phrasal verbs with out as a perfective particle, as put out, stamp out, etc.

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How to use smokeout in a sentence

British Dictionary definitions for smoke out

smoke out

verb(tr, adverb)
  1. to subject to smoke in order to drive out of hiding

  2. to bring into the open; expose to the public: they smoked out the plot

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Other Idioms and Phrases with smokeout

smokeout

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]

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