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all-hang-out

all-hang-out adjective: unrestrained in narration, often to an indecorous extent.

Adjective

all-hang-out

  1. (attributive) unrestrained in narration, often to an indecorous extent.
    • 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...1988 December 25, Michael Bronski, “Passion Statement”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 24, page 8
    • […] the "all-hang-out" school of contemporary biography to which Morgan's book belongs1991, Daniel Mornin, All Our Fault: A Novel, Random House (UK), →ISBN

Origin of all-hang-out

From the phrase let it all hang out.

Questions about all-hang-out

What does all-hang-out mean?
All-hang-out means unrestrained in narration, often to an indecorous extent.
What part of speech is all-hang-out?
All-hang-out is an adjective.

Words near all-hang-out in the dictionary

  1. all-hail
  2. all-hailed
  3. all-hailing
  4. all-hails
  5. all-hands
  6. all-hang-out
  7. all-heal
  8. all-healing
  9. all-heals
  10. all-important
  11. all-in

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