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1. (orig. US) completely, e.g. clapped-out, drugged-out, stressed-out.
![]() | in | Wild Wheels 95: Compared to the old guy’s junked out jalopy.|
![]() | Mooi Street (1994) 118: Hell-out complicated, I suppose? | ‘Boo to the Moon’ in|
![]() | London Fields 248: Little did they know that the place they were about to burgle – the shop, and the flat above it – had already been burgled the week before: yes, and the week before that. And the week before that. It was all burgled out. | |
![]() | Grits 29: A couple uv gay blokes oo work in thuh Arts Centre [...] must be gettin fag-hagged out by er. | |
![]() | Life 4: We were planed out. We’d had a scary flight. |
2. used with a number to denote uneven odds, e.g. three-out, three to one in a fight.
![]() | Goodoo Goodoo 120: I couldn’t stand there and see you getting two-outed. | |
![]() | Intractable [ebook] Peter was willing to fight each one separately but they four-outed him. |