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put-out

put-out is the alternative spelling of put out.

put-out is the alternative spelling of putout.

Meaning of put out

Adjective

put out (comparative more put out, superlative most put out)

  1. Taking offense; indignant.
    • He was put out at the mere suggestion of misconduct.

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Meaning of putout

Noun

putout (plural putouts)

  1. A play in which a batter is retired.
  2. The statistic of the number of outs a defensive player directly caused.
    • Jones recorded 15 putouts in the first half of the season.

Forms of put-out

Adjective
comparativemore put-out
superlativemost put-out
Noun
pluralput-outs

Origin of put-out

Deverbal from put out.

Questions about put-out

What is put-out the alternative spelling of?
Put-out is the alternative spelling of put out.

Words near put-out in the dictionary

  1. put-me-up
  2. put-me-ups
  3. put-off
  4. put-on
  5. put-ons
  6. put-out
  7. put-outness
  8. put-outs
  9. put-put
  10. put-puts
  11. put-putted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: put-out (page history and authors); put out (page history and authors); putout (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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