Chuck a drunkard out of the house (5)
I believe the answer is:
shoot
'chuck' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'a drunkard out of the house' is the wordplay.
'a drunkard' becomes 'sot' (sot can mean a drunken person).
'out of' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters on the outside of others).
'the house' becomes 'ho' (abbreviation for house).
'sot' going around 'ho' is 'SHOOT'.
(Other definitions for shoot that I've seen before include "Use a gun; film" , "modelling session" , "Make a film" , "Film; move rapidly" , "Kill; part of plant" .)