out-and-outer

noun

A first-rate fellow.

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Meanings

nounout-and-outer (plural out-and-outers)

plural out-and-outers

  1. datedinformalA first-rate fellow.

    You're a prime gloak, an out-and-outer, to get as far as you did before they grabbed you.

    1956, Frank Clune, Martin Cash: The Last of the Tasmanian Bushrangers, page 149
    1 more example

    I am the Wackford Squeers as is therein named, sir. I am the man as is guaranteed, by unimpeachable references, to be a ^([sic]) out-and-outer in morals and uprightness of principle.

    1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

Origin

From out and out + -er.

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Chicago

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