# put out
## English
### Pronunciation

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### Noun

put out (plural put outs)
* Misspelling of putout.

#### Translations
### Adjective

put out (comparative more put out, superlative most put out)
* (Should we delete this sense?) Taking offense; indignant.
    He was put out at the mere suggestion of misconduct.
** 1991 May 4, Elizabeth Yukins, “Maryland Passes Gay Hate Crimes Bill”, in Gay Community News, page 2:Gordon told GCN that when the bill was first reviewed in the House, it received a 70-49 vote, one vote short of the majority it needed to pass. Gordon said that gay and lesbian activists were "extremely put-out" over this narrow loss.

#### Translations
### Verb

put out (third-person singular simple present puts out, present participle putting out, simple past and past participle put out)
* (transitive) To blind (eyes).
    You can't have a pair of scissors! You'll put your eye out!
* (transitive) To place outside, to remove, particularly
    Don’t forget to put out the dog.
** To expel.
    Synonyms: boot out, eject, kick out
*** 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 19:‘These guys,’ said Tom, ‘the ones who put out this magazine at Radley. What happened to them?’ […] ‘Ah, now this is why we must proceed with great circumspection. They were both, hum, “put out” themselves. “Booted out” I believe is the technical phrase.’
** To remove from office.
    Synonyms: depose, impeach
* (transitive) To cause something to be out, particularly
** To cause someone to be out of sorts; to annoy, impose, inconvenience, or disturb.
    Synonyms: perturb, unsettle; see also Thesaurus:upset
    I don't mean to put you out. It's just vital that I get this done tonight.
*** 1885, William Dean Howells, chapter XII, in The Rise of Silas Lapham‎:“Then you didn't find her so amusing as Tom does?” “I found her pert. There's no other word for it. She says things to puzzle you and put you out.”
** (sports) To knock out: to eliminate from a competition.
*** 2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport‎:England stumbled into the World Cup quarter-finals and almost certainly put Scotland out after an error-ridden victory at Eden Park.
** (baseball and cricket) To cause a player on offense to be out.
** (boxing and medicine) Synonym of knock out: to render unconscious.
* (intransitive) To go out, to head out, especially (sailing) to set sail.
    Synonyms: set out, start out; see also Thesaurus:leave
** c. 1900, O. Henry, The Missing Chord:Along about Tuesday Uncle Cal put out for San Antone on the last wagonload of wool.
* (transitive) To cause something to go out, particularly
** To produce, to emit.
    Synonyms: give off, send out
    The factory puts out 4000 units each day.
    This unit puts out 4000 BTUs.
** (obsolete) To express.
** To broadcast, to publish.
*** 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 19:‘These guys,’ said Tom, ‘the ones who put out this magazine at Radley. What happened to them?’ […] ‘Ah, now this is why we must proceed with great circumspection. They were both, hum, “put out” themselves. “Booted out” I believe is the technical phrase.’
** To dislocate (a joint).
    Lift with your knees. Don’t put out your back.
** To extinguish (fire).
    Synonyms: douse, extinct
    They worked for days to put out the brushfire.
    She put out her cigarette.
    One of the accident victims had to be put out by the passers-by.
*** c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:Yet she must dye, else shee'l betray more men: Put out the Light, and then put out the Light: If I quench thee, thou flaming Minister, I can againe thy former light restore, Should I repent me. But once put out thy Light, Thou cunning'st Patterne of excelling Nature, I know not where is that Promethaean heate That can thy Light re-Lume.
*** [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:[…] in a second I had put out the candle, scrambled up the shelves, half-stunned my senses with dashing my head against the roof, and squeezed my body betwixt wall and coffin.
** To turn off (light).
*** 2010, Terry Deary, Put out the Light, p. 10:
    'You talk funny,' I said to him. 'I mean, the other wardens say, "Put that light out", but you shout, "Put out the light".' 'Shakespeare,' the warden said in a deep voice.
    Put out those lights before the Germans see them.
* (intransitive, originally US slang) To consent to having sex.
    Synonyms: open one's legs, spread one's legs
** 1928 December, Our Army, page 19:Don't them laundry queens put out good enough to suit you?
** 1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 17, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan:Christ, maybe that blond was only a bitch after all. Maybe she put out even to the punks. Come to think of it, she looked a little hard-boiled.
** 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC:Aarfy […] tried to dissuade them from ever putting out for anyone but their husbands.
** 1964, Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn, New York: Grove Press, page 95:Nobody likes a cockteaser. Either you put out or you dont.
** 1975, David Lodge, Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses, page 232:If she won't put out the men will accuse her of being bourgeois and uptight.
** 2003, Elizabeth M. Noble, Reading Group, page 205:I can't afford to waste a Saturday night here with some married bird who isn't putting out.
** 2005, William Heffernan, A Time Gone By:This Grosso dated this woman a couple of times, and then, when she wouldn't put out for him, he beat her up and forced her.

#### Usage notes

* The object in all transitive senses can come before or after the particle. If it is a pronoun, then it must come before the particle.

#### Derived terms

* output
* put out a fire
* put out feelers
* put out of one's mind
* put out to grass
* put out to pasture
* put someone out of their misery

#### Translations
### Anagrams

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