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sold out from under

sold out from under is the simple past and past participle of sell out from under.

Meaning of sell out from under

Verb

sell out from under (third-person singular simple present sells out from under, present participle selling out from under, simple past and past participle sold out from under)

  1. (transitive) To sell (something, most often a home) despite current habitation or reliance from others and without telling the current users of the property until it is too late for them to react.
    • I've gotta move in a hurry because my landlord sold the house out from under me.

Questions about sold out from under

What is sold out from under the simple past and past participle of?
Sold out from under is the simple past and past participle of sell out from under.

Words near sold out from under in the dictionary

  1. sold one's own grandmother
  2. sold one's soul
  3. sold one's soul to the devil
  4. sold oneself
  5. sold out
  6. sold out from under
  7. sold past the close
  8. sold salt to a slug
  9. sold short
  10. sold snow to Eskimos
  11. sold someone a bill of goods

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