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How to use outa in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Outa means an old black man. Example: “As I stood to one side to let him go out, she asked: “Daddy, is he an uncle or an outa?””

Examples of outa by meaning

nounAn old black man.

  • As I stood to one side to let him go out, she asked: “Daddy, is he an uncle or an outa?”1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 133
  • Secondly, there is an old black man, the Outa, who stumbles in from the dark to die beside their fire.2001, South African Theatre Journal, volume 15, page 48
  • The reference is to a cheerful little ditty, in which an old black man, an ‘outa’, takes the long road to Mebosspruit, playing his tin guitar along the way.2003, Antjie Krog, A Change of Tongue, page 275

More sentences with outa

  • They're packing their bags to get outa this freakin' neighborhood.” She pointed at her brother.2017, Paul Teodo, Pastaman, Fulton Books, Inc., →ISBN. From the entry chadrool
  • I’m tired of scufflin’ and my feet are too long outa work.”1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Tell a Green Man Something”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 3…. From the entry scuffle
  • “Tea Cake, Ah ’clare Ah don’t know whut tuh make outa you.1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial, published 2000, page 107. From the entry 'clare
  • I never wanna be outa diapers.2022 May 7, @max_mush_mater, Twitter. From the entry pushie
  • You all get in outa that hot sun ‘fore you fry alive!” Lemonade in the middle of the morning was a summertime ritual.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC. From the entry front door
  • "Now listen--I know a certain big Chinee had her kidnapped outa her 'rickshaw out at the edge of the city one evenin'.1932, Robert E. Howard, Dark Shanghai. From the entry twist
  • But they give me clothes for my body, and food for my belly, and tonight, I'm so happy, I could beat the living bejesus outa this goddam drum.1949, Richard Harrity, Hope is the Thing with Feathers, Dramatists Play Service, page 18. From the entry bejesus
  • He called the ownah right away on the telephone, an when the ownah got down there he found out that all the cash money had been took outa the safe.1967, William Matthews Johnson, The House on Corbett Street: A Novel of Negro Stirrings Amid Discontent. From the entry ownah

Meaning of outa

  1. noun An old black man.

Full definition of outa

Questions about outa in a sentence

How do you use outa in a sentence?
Outa is used as a noun. For example: “As I stood to one side to let him go out, she asked: “Daddy, is he an uncle or an outa?””
What is a short sentence with outa?
“I never wanna be outa diapers.”
What does outa mean?
Outa means an old black man.

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