all-hang-out

adjective

unrestrained in narration, often to an indecorous extent.

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Meanings

adjective
  1. attributiveunrestrained in narration, often to an indecorous extent.

    […] the "all-hang-out" school of contemporary biography to which Morgan's book belongs

    1991, Daniel Mornin, All Our Fault: A Novel, Random House (UK), →ISBN
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    Although The Human Voice parody in Law of Desire was a funny conceit, all out of control and frantic nervousness, Women on the Verge shows Almodóvar to be in tight form, the laughs emerging from a skilled manipulation of the farce structure rather than all-hang-out anarchism of Matador or Law of Desire.

    1988 December 25, Michael Bronski, “Passion Statement”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 24, page 8

Origin

From the phrase let it all hang out.

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APA

all-hang-out. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/all-hang-out

MLA

“all-hang-out.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/all-hang-out. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “all-hang-out,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/all-hang-out.

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