How is “smoke out” used?

In The Beekeeper (2024), one line is: “Sometimes I use fire to smoke out hornets.”

Which movie is “smoke out” from?

The clip at the top of this page is from The Beekeeper (2024).

Phrasal verb

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

Heard in 19 movies

1
smoke sb / sth out
to force sb / sth to come out of a place by filling it with smoke
to smoke out wasps from a nest
2
smoke sb / sth out
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.

Definitions from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, 9th edition

Sometimes I use fire to smoke out hornets.

Said in 8 films · #1