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out to lunch

out to lunch adjective: away eating lunch or for a midday break; especially, away from work or a job.

Adjective

out to lunch (not comparable)

  1. Away eating lunch or for a midday break; especially, away from work or a job.
    • She's out to lunch right now, but you may leave her a note.
  2. (idiomatic, informal) Clueless, inattentive, or careless.
    • After he drove with his turn signal on for five miles, I was pretty sure he was out to lunch.
    • Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippy, good-timer, (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terribly bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.1979, Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

out to lunch meaning in Bengali

out to lunch in Bengali

দুপুরের খাবার খেতে, বিরতিতে যাওয়া, কাজ থেকে দূরে থাকা, অজ্ঞ, অমনোযোগী, অসাবধান

Questions about out to lunch

What does out to lunch mean?
Out to lunch means away eating lunch or for a midday break; especially, away from work or a job.
What is out to lunch in Bengali?
Out to lunch in Bengali is দুপুরের খাবার খেতে, বিরতিতে যাওয়া, কাজ থেকে দূরে থাকা. See Out to lunch meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is out to lunch?
Out to lunch is an adjective.

Words near out to lunch in the dictionary

  1. out the window
  2. out the ying yang
  3. out there
  4. out to
  5. out to get someone
  6. out to lunch
  7. out trade
  8. out trades
  9. out upon
  10. out west
  11. out with it

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