fade out v.
1. to leave.
![]() | Tales of the Ex-Tanks 310: We faded out into the nippy, frosty street. | |
![]() | Law O’ The Lariat 41: I just fade out, leavin’ no word, an’ yu take hold an’ run the ranch. | |
![]() | Und. and Prison Sl. | |
![]() | Dames Don’t Care (1960) 14: Fade out for the border by car. | |
![]() | DAUL 67/1: Fade out, v. To slip away unobtrusively. | et al.|
![]() | Banker Tells All 32: Some, a few of them bank clerks and officials, ‘fade out’ with money which does not belong to them. | |
![]() | Go, Man, Go! 75: OK, Flash, since you really go for one another, I’ll fade out of the picture. | |
![]() | (con. 1940s–60s) Straight from the Fridge Dad. |
2. to die.
![]() | Crying Shame of NY 191: [They] faded out with the malady that came to them as an inheritance from both the paternal and maternal side. | |
![]() | Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
![]() | Decadence in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 36: My hate’s not hot enough / to shove a knife in this ponce’s gut / I’ll let him fade out like the dinosaur. |