outs

Noun

out (plural outs)

1. A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc.
   • They wrote the law to give those organizations an out.
2. A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of various rules of the game such as striking out, hitting a fly ball which is caught by the fielding team before bouncing, etc.
   • The first time I saw Amity we were in front of her house playing work-up, a baseball variation where you move from position to position by outs until you get to bat.2014, Tom Bentley, Flowering: And Other Stories
3. A dismissal; a state in which a member of the batting team finishes his turn at bat, due to the application of various rules of the game, such as the bowler knocking over the batsman's wicket with the ball.
4. A card which can make a hand a winner.
   • As a beginner, when you are in a hand, you should practice counting your outs, or those live cards left in the deck that can improve your hand.2005, Alison M. Pendergast, Play Winning Poker in No Time, page 57
5. (dated) A trip out; an outing.
   • Us London lawyers don't often get an out; and when we do, we like to make the most of it, you know.1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC
6. (in plural) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office.
   • This memoir has nothing to do with the question between the ins and the outs; it is intended neither to support nor to assail the administration; it is general in its views upon a general and national subject; […]1827, Benjamin Chew, A Sketch of the Politics, Relations, and Statistics, of the Western World, page 192

   Antonyms:

   in

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