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out-and-outers

out-and-outers is the plural of out-and-outer.

Meaning of out-and-outer

Noun

out-and-outer (plural out-and-outers)

  1. (dated, informal) A first-rate fellow.
    • I am the Wackford Squeers as is therein named, sir. I am the man as is guaranteed, by unimpeachable references, to be a ^([sic]) out-and-outer in morals and uprightness of principle.1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

Questions about out-and-outers

What is out-and-outers the plural of?
Out-and-outers is the plural of out-and-outer.

Words near out-and-outers in the dictionary

  1. out-
  2. out-and-back
  3. out-and-home
  4. out-and-out
  5. out-and-outer
  6. out-and-outers
  7. out-argue
  8. out-argued
  9. out-argues
  10. out-arguing
  11. out-at-elbow

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Adapted from Wiktionary: out-and-outers (page history and authors); out-and-outer (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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