Etymology

age out

Today it means: To become too old for an activity, program or institution; to become too mature for a behavior. Full definition →

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The story

Use of the phrasal verb, with adverb out, is analogous to run out. The phrase was likely spread by the Boy Scouts of America, where it is used largely in sense 1 to refer to turning eighteen and becoming ineligible for the youth program.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.