to smoke

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

To find any one out; to discover anything meant to be kept secret.--Halliwell.


The two free-booters, seeing themselves smoaked, told their third brother he seemed to he a gentleman and a boone companion; they prayed him, therefore, to sit down with silence, and sethence dinner was not yet ready, he should heare all.--Dekker's Lanthorne, 1629.

The fellow takes me for a country dealer. Good! I'll smoke him. Ahem! sir, how do you sell iron feather beds by the gross?--Perils of Pearl Street, p. 77.

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