try-out

A form of tryout — A test of the suitability or effectiveness of a person or thing, especially an audition for a performer or athlete, or the advance staging of a play at a small theatre.

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Meanings

nountry-out (plural try-outs)

plural try-outs

  1. alternativeAlternative form of tryout.

    The next thing I was invited to a try-out in South Bend, Indiana.

    2015, Merrie A. Fidler, The Origins and History of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, page 107
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    By the first day of try-outs, the sheets were completely filled with students' names.

    2004, Peggy Roberts, Daily Skill Builders: Reading 5-6

    The setting was the youth league baseball try-outs in the small town of Boland, New Hampshire. Also in attendance at the try-outs was John Harding, a hometown hero who, together with his wife, Sally, and their soon-to-be 8-year-old son, Rick, had only recently returned to Boland to settle down and begin John's tenure as the President and CEO of Millennium International, one of the largest computer companies in the country.

    2012, Don Blackwell, Dear Ashley

Origin

Deverbal from try out.

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APA

try-out. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/try-out

MLA

“try-out.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/try-out. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “try-out,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/try-out.

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