Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US prison/Und.) parole.

2001

G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 51: He had completed his outside time and said goodbye to his PO.

1. (orig. US) to consume, to swallow, esp. a drink, e.g. get outside a pint.

1862		‘Artemus Ward’ Artemus Ward, His Book 51: ‘Wall,’ I replied, as I put myself outside my beverage, ‘my son Artemus junior is goin on 18.’.
1873		J. O’Connor Wanderings of a Vagabond 296: I poured some of the liquor into one of the tumblers, and, by its smell, thought it a good article of brandy; but to make sure, I ‘put myself outside of it,’ [...] as speedily as possible.
1877		Southern Reporter 31 May 4/4: Tomorrow ain’t here, but the grub is, and so I’m a-going to get outside it while I can.
1880		Bulletin (Sydney) 8 May 5/3: Mr. Alfred Dampier and his friends now put themselves outside their whisky with the remark, ‘Success to drink’ .
1881		N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 5 Feb. 208/2I certainly was not aware until then that the above remark was the latest method of asking you to put yourself outside some liquor: .
1884		Sporting Times 27 Dec. 2/2: We hastily climb outside as much as we can contain of this little meal.
1886		S. Watson Wops the Waif 2/2: Git outside your scran as quick as yer knows how.
1889		Kipling ‘The Bow Flume Cable-Car’ in Civil & Military Gaz. 10 Sept.(1909) 188: ‘[A] man could put himself outside two drinks in a minute and a half’.
1890		E. Field ‘Prof. Vere De Blaw’ Little Bk of Western Verse 169: He waltzed up to the counter an’ demanded whiskey straight, / Wich havin’ got outside uv, — both likker and the door.
1893		States Rights Democrat (Albany, OR) 28 Apr. 4/7: Tom would come to town and put himself outside of a ‘small barrel’ of whiskey and then [...] paint the town a ‘sky blue pink’.
1900		Bulletin (Sydney) 21 July 14/2: The camel usually gets outside his feed first, and then charges the moke open-mouthed, scares him from his box, and surrounds the balance of his feed.
1906		C. M’Govern Sarjint Larry an’ Frinds 56: In fifteen minutes [...] we was puttin’ ourselves outside of de biggest feed [...] you would wahnt to lay eyes on.
1911		Sport (Adelaide) 18 Nov. 8/4: They got well outside of a fifteen gallon keg [of beer].
1912		J. London Smoke Bellew Pt 10 🌐 Say, them swells down in the States ain’t got nothin’ over us in the matter of eats [...] Here’s you an’ me an’ Smoke gettin’ outside ninety dollars’ worth of eggs an’ not battin’ an eye.
1922		Joyce Ulysses 147: Appetite like an albatross. Get outside of a baron of beef.
1924		‘Sapper’ Third Round 632: If I don’t get outside of a pint of beer soon [...] there will be a double event in the funeral line.
1935		C. Drew ‘The Bone-Head’ in Bulletin 6 May 28/2: [He] wound up by getting outside a dozen tomatoes.
1936		H.W. Bentley ‘Linguistic Concoctions of the Soda Jerker’ in AS XI:1 44: PUT YOURSELF OUTSIDE OF. To drink.
1938		L. Ortzen Down Donkey Row 27: It’s about time we [...] got outside some of Ma’s fodder.
1941		F. Sargeson ‘That Summer’ in Coll. Stories (1965) 190: Then when I got outside the tucker I felt a lot better.
1953		F. Brown Madball (2019) 71: ‘C’mon, get outside the rest of that grub’.
1960		H.E. Bates When the Green Woods Laugh (1985) 287: Get outside that one [...] and I’ll mix you another.
1972		D. Jenkins Semi-Tough 149: Let’s go to Clarke’s and get on the outside of some bacon cheeseburgers.
2005		Viz Apr. 50: There you go, my son [...] ciabatta with tofu and rocket pesto! Get on the outside of that.

2. (US) to understand, to learn, to master.

1889

Farmer Americanisms 405/1: To get outside a thing is to understand it [DA].

3. of a woman, to have sexual intercourse.

1890–1904

Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.