sevening out
sevening out is the present participle and gerund of seven out.
Meaning of seven out
Verb
seven out (third-person singular simple present sevens out, present participle sevening out, simple past and past participle sevened out)
- in the game of craps, to roll a seven after having established the "point".
- "Why do you push it, Charlie?" he said. "At our age one short game is plenty. Do you see me playing more? One of these days you could seven out.[…]"1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 66
- Synonyms:
- crap out
Questions about sevening out
- What is sevening out the present participle and gerund of?
- Sevening out is the present participle and gerund of seven out.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sevening out (page history and authors); seven out (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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