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watchout

watchout noun: a lookout; a person who stands guard watching for something.

Noun

watchout (plural watchouts)

  1. A lookout; a person who stands guard watching for something.
    • Half of the beggars observed appeared to have watchouts and, similar to those on the Strand, on some pitches two watchouts operated looking out for police coming from different directions.1995, Jeanne Moore, The Faces of Homelessness in London, page 218
  2. Any potentially hazardous condition or situation that may make a fire more dangerous.
    • A change in wind direction is a watchout.
    • Being uninformed on firefighting strategy and tactics is a watchout.

Forms of watchout

pluralwatchouts

Origin of watchout

Deverbal from watch out.

Questions about watchout

What does watchout mean?
Watchout means a lookout; a person who stands guard watching for something.
What part of speech is watchout?
Watchout is a noun.
What is the plural of watchout?
The plural of watchout is watchouts.

Words near watchout in the dictionary

  1. Watchmenverse
  2. watchnight
  3. watchnights
  4. watchoo
  5. Watchorn
  6. watchout
  7. watchouts
  8. watchpeople
  9. watchperson
  10. watchpersons
  11. watchphone

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