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lit out

lit out is the simple past and past participle of light out.

Meaning of light out

Verb

light out (third-person singular simple present lights out, present participle lighting out, simple past and past participle lit out or lighted out)

  1. (dated, intransitive, slang) To go away or depart, especially in haste or without notice.
    • the outlaws lit out for the border
    Synonyms:
    abscond, make off, skip

Questions about lit out

What is lit out the simple past and past participle of?
Lit out is the simple past and past participle of light out.

Words near lit out in the dictionary

  1. Lit Hum
  2. lit into
  3. lit off
  4. lit on
  5. lit one's hair on fire
  6. lit out
  7. lit someone's ass up
  8. lit the blue touchpaper
  9. lit the touch-paper
  10. lit the touchpaper
  11. lit up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lit out (page history and authors); light out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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