put out

plural put outs

1. misspellingMisspelling of putout.

comparative more put out · superlative most put out

1. Taking offense; indignant.

   He was put out at the mere suggestion of misconduct.

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   Gordon told GCN that when the bill was first reviewed in the House, it received a 70-49 vote, one vote short of the majority it needed to pass. Gordon said that gay and lesbian activists were "extremely put-out" over this narrow loss.

   1991 May 4, Elizabeth Yukins, “Maryland Passes Gay Hate Crimes Bill”, in Gay Community News, page 2

   Lao Bingyi had a bruise growing dark on her forehead and her left sleeve was soaked in blood that might have been her own or someone else’s, but her pinned braids were still pristine, and she looked mightily put out.

   2022 October 25, Nghi Vo, Into the Riverlands, Tordotcom, →ISBN

present singular third person puts out · participle present putting out

1. transitiveTo blind (eyes).

   You can't have a pair of scissors! You'll put your eye out!

2. transitiveTo place outside, to remove, particularly

   Don’t forget to put out the dog.

   1. transitiveTo expel.

      ‘These guys,’ said Tom, ‘the ones who put out this magazine at Radley. What happened to them?’ […] ‘Ah, now this is why we must proceed with great circumspection. They were both, hum, “put out” themselves. “Booted out” I believe is the technical phrase.’

      1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 19

      Synonyms: boot out, eject, kick out

   2. transitiveTo remove from office.

      Synonyms: depose, impeach

3. To cause something to be out, particularly
   1. transitiveTo cause someone to be out of sorts; to annoy, impose, inconvenience, or disturb.

      I don't mean to put you out. It's just vital that I get this done tonight.

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      “Then you didn't find her so amusing as Tom does?” “I found her pert. There's no other word for it. She says things to puzzle you and put you out.”

      1885, William Dean Howells, chapter XII, in The Rise of Silas Lapham

      Synonyms: perturb, unsettle, agitate, freak, sting, bother, bring down, discompose

   2. transitivehobbiesTo knock out: to eliminate from a competition.

      England stumbled into the World Cup quarter-finals and almost certainly put Scotland out after an error-ridden victory at Eden Park.

      2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport

   3. transitiveball gamesTo cause a player on offense to be out.
   4. transitiveboxingSynonym of knock out: to render unconscious.

      Synonyms: knock out

4. intransitiveTo go out, to head out; (especially) to set sail.

   Along about Tuesday Uncle Cal put out for San Antone on the last wagonload of wool.

   c. 1900, O. Henry, The Missing Chord

5. To cause something to go out, particularly
   1. transitiveTo produce, to emit.

      This unit puts out 4000 BTUs.

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      The factory puts out 4000 units each day.

      Synonyms: give off, send out

   2. obsoletetransitiveTo express.
   3. transitiveTo broadcast, to publish.

      ‘These guys,’ said Tom, ‘the ones who put out this magazine at Radley. What happened to them?’ […] ‘Ah, now this is why we must proceed with great circumspection. They were both, hum, “put out” themselves. “Booted out” I believe is the technical phrase.’

      1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 19

   4. transitiveTo dislocate (a joint).

      Lift with your knees. Don’t put out your back.

   5. transitiveTo extinguish (fire).

      She put out her cigarette.

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      They worked for days to put out the brushfire.

      One of the accident victims had to be put out by the passers-by.

      Yet she must dye, else shee'l betray more men: Put out the Light, and then put out the Light: If I quench thee, thou flaming Minister, I can againe thy former light restore, Should I repent me. But once put out thy Light, Thou cunning'st Patterne of excelling Nature, I know not where is that Promethaean heate That can thy Light re-Lume.

      c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]

      […] in a second I had put out the candle, scrambled up the shelves, half-stunned my senses with dashing my head against the roof, and squeezed my body betwixt wall and coffin.

      [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC

      Synonyms: douse, extinct

   6. transitiveTo turn off (light).

      Put out those lights before the Germans see them.

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      'You talk funny,' I said to him. 'I mean, the other wardens say, "Put that light out", but you shout, "Put out the light".' 'Shakespeare,' the warden said in a deep voice.

      2010, Terry Deary, Put out the Light, p. 10

6. intransitiveTo consent to having sex.

   Don't them laundry queens put out good enough to suit you?

   1928 December, Our Army, page 19

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   Christ, maybe that blond was only a bitch after all. Maybe she put out even to the punks. Come to think of it, she looked a little hard-boiled.

   1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 17, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan

   Aarfy […] tried to dissuade them from ever putting out for anyone but their husbands.

   1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC

   Nobody likes a cockteaser. Either you put out or you dont.^([sic])

   1964, Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn, New York: Grove Press, page 95

   If she won't put out the men will accuse her of being bourgeois and uptight.

   1975, David Lodge, Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses, page 232

   I can't afford to waste a Saturday night here with some married bird who isn't putting out.

   2003, Elizabeth M. Noble, Reading Group, page 205

   Synonyms: open one's legs, spread one's legs