runouts

Noun

runout (countable and uncountable, plural runouts)

1. Something that has been run out.
   • The landslide had a long runout.
2. The method of getting out (dismissed from play) in which a batsman, in making a run, has not reached the popping crease when a fielder breaks his wicket with the ball.
3. A relatively flat portion at the end of a ski run to slow down, or to connect trails.
4. Slowing down at the end of a ski run, skiing on a runout.
   • If, as people often say, skiing is like sex, then the run-out that follows a great run—that breezy pole-and-glide along a logging road, stream, or moraine back to the lift, hut, truck, or bar—is the cigarette in bed.2011 September 13, Nick Paumgarten, “Ode to Happy Endings: Celebrating the least appreciated aspect of a great run.”, in Skiing, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2011
5. The end portion of the groove of a phonographic record, after the recorded sound.
6. A supposed auction employing shill bidders in order to convince legitimate buyers to purchase worthless articles.
   • There is a lot of trouble in Petticoat Lane. In fact, the mock auction boys have muscled in to such an extent on the bomb damaged ground that there is a danger that Petticoat Lane may lose its good name by the boys coming in now with the "runouts" to make quick profits and then get out.1953 July 10, Hansard

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