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smoke
v. (slang). See quotation. 1893. `Sydney Morning Herald,' June 26, p. 8, col. 8: «He said to the ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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.
v. (slang). See quotation. 1893. `Sydney Morning Herald,' June 26, p. 8, col. 8: «He said to the ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris