Adverb

1. Away from home, not indoors.

   Let's eat out tonight

   Leave a message for me if I'm out when you call.

2. Away from; at a distance.

   Keep out!

3. Away from the inside or the centre.

   The magician pulled the rabbit out of the hat.

4. Into a state of non-operation; into non-existence.

   Switch the lights out.

   Put the fire out.

5. Used to intensify or emphasize.

   The place was all decked out for the holidays.

6. Of a player, disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket).

Preposition

1. Away from the inside.

   He threw it out the door.

2. Away from the center.

Noun

1. A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc.

   They wrote the law to give those organizations an out.

2. A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play because the defending team threw the baseball past the batter three times in the strike zone, fielded a ball hit in the air, or fielded a ball hit to the ground and moved the ball to a defender blocking the runner's ability to move from base to base.
3. A card which can make a hand a winner.

Verb

1. To reveal (a person) to be secretly homosexual.
2. To reveal (a person) as having a certain secret.
   • 2009 March 16, Maurna Desmond, "AIG Outs Counterparties" (online news article), Forbes.com.

Adjective

1. Of a player, disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket).
2. Openly acknowledging one's homosexuality.

Related terms

• all out
• eat out
• far out
• go out
• run out
• out-

• outen
• out of
• outer
• outback
• outer
• outing

• outness
• outta (slang, "out of")
• outworn
• put out
• way out