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weedout

weedout noun: a removal of weeds.

Noun

weedout (countable and uncountable, plural weedouts)

  1. (countable) A removal of weeds.
    • The PPMC Director interviewed for this project stated that his volunteers are frustrated they cannot do more work in the parks besides the cleanups and weedouts.2016, Sarah Dooling, Gregory Simon, Cities, Nature and Development, page 77
  2. (attributive, informal) A class that is difficult or requires great effort, and thus may cause less able or less dedicated students to withdraw.
    • a weedout class
    • a weedout course

Forms of weedout

pluralweedouts

Origin of weedout

A deverbal from weed out.

Questions about weedout

What does weedout mean?
Weedout means a removal of weeds.
What part of speech is weedout?
Weedout is a noun.
What is the plural of weedout?
The plural of weedout is weedouts.

Words near weedout in the dictionary

  1. weedmen
  2. Weedon
  3. Weedon Bec
  4. Weedon Lois
  5. Weedons
  6. weedout
  7. weedouts
  8. Weedpatch
  9. weedproof
  10. weedrace
  11. weedraces

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Adapted from Wiktionary: weedout (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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