sister-out-law

noun

The sister of one's boyfriend or girlfriend.

Meanings

nounsister-out-law (plural sisters-out-law)

plural sisters-out-law

  1. The sister of one's boyfriend or girlfriend.
  2. Girlfriend of one's brother or sister.

    “If you're openly gay, wouldn't that make you his sister-out-law?”

    2014, Janice Ryan Hall, Deadly Ties: Sequel to Blood Ties, volume 2 (Fiction), →ISBN, D1dXDQAAQBAJ, page 565
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    I, on the other side, was ready to strangle my almost sister-in-law. (My sister out-law.)

    2008, John Crawley, Among the Aspen, →ISBN, TDrcNfNKVH4C, page 114

    This included Prunella Tuff, my “sister-out-law”, a term we invented to describe the relationship between us as she was the sister of my brother in-law, Tim Tuff.

    2013, Howard Balloch, Semi-Nomadic Anecdotes (Biography & Autobiography), →ISBN, jwc6BgAAQBAJ, page 59

    I, on the other side, was ready to strangle my almost sister-in-law. (My sister out-law.)

    2015, Katherine Woodward Thomas, Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After (Family & Relationships), →ISBN, 2pv0BQAAQBAJ, page 59
  3. The sister of one's ex-spouse.

Origin

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