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dust-outs

dust-outs is the plural of dust-out.

Meaning of dust-out

Noun

dust-out (plural dust-outs)

  1. dust cloud that impairs vision.
    • Wade will tell you the truck forced him off the road, but what really happened was that in the total dust-out after the truck passed (“I couldn't even see the speedo”), he turned early for the next corner, running off the road.2014, Philip Atkinson Wade Stubbs, CIRCLE TO CIRCLE: Adventure Riding Across the World, →ISBN
  2. A prankster who misleads others.
    • Even then, shirkers and dust-outs must expect to answer to the law for thumbing their noses at the U.S.1972, Editorials on File - Volume 3, Part 1, page 37
  3. Cleanup.
    • The place needs a good dust-out.2014, James Tiptree Jr., Brightness Falls From the Air, →ISBN

Questions about dust-outs

What is dust-outs the plural of?
Dust-outs is the plural of dust-out.

Words near dust-outs in the dictionary

  1. dust-free
  2. Dust-Hole
  3. dust-off
  4. dust-offs
  5. dust-out
  6. dust-outs
  7. dust-ridden
  8. dust-tight
  9. dust-up
  10. dust-ups
  11. dustable

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