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OOTB

OOTB is the initialism of out of the box.

Meaning of out of the box

Prepositional phrase

  1. Of a product, immediately, without intervention from the customer.
    • This software has to work out of the box, without any fancy installation.
    Synonyms:
    off the shelf
  2. (figuratively) Outside the box; unconventionally: outside the limits of conventional thinking.
    • He started out with the rather obvious alternative of talking to Junior; Hesh’s scheme was more imaginative; and Tony’s idea of torching the restaurant really is out of the box.2004, Deborrah Himsel, Leadership Sopranos Style: How to Become a More Effective Boss, Kaplan Publishing, →ISBN, page 135
    Synonyms:
    laterally, outside the box, outside of the box, OOTB
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: See out of, the, box.

Questions about OOTB

What is OOTB the initialism of?
OOTB is the initialism of out of the box.

Words near OOTB in the dictionary

  1. Ootacamund
  2. ootaxa
  3. ootaxon
  4. ootaxonomic
  5. ootaxonomy
  6. OOTB
  7. OOTD
  8. OOTDs
  9. Ooten
  10. Ootens
  11. Ootha

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Adapted from Wiktionary: OOTB (page history and authors); out of the box (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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