throw out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹəʊ ˌaʊt/
ipa: /ˌθɹəʊ ˈaʊt/
Forms: form: throws out
form: throwing out
form: threw out
form: thrown out
Etymology: From throw + out.
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, out.
examples: text: Just throw that pen out if it doesn't write anymore.
text: They decided to throw out the idea because it would have been too expensive.
text: I picked up Eminem and I liked it. He pretty much threw out today's standardized thug/club/dance and stack paper philosophy that a jabillion other rappers have already adapted.
ref: 1999 February 25, PoeticCell [username], “Re: Eminem is the white Redman”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet):
text: The episode also opens with an inspired bit of business for Homer, who blithely refuses to acquiesce to an elderly neighbor’s utterly reasonable request that he help make the process of selling her house easier by wearing pants when he gallivants about in front of windows, throw out his impressive collection of rotting Jack-O-Lanterns from previous Halloweens and take out his garbage, as it’s attracting wildlife (cue moose and Northern Exposure theme song).
ref: 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
synonyms: word: toss out
word: toss
word: junk
word: 86
word: bin
word: can
word: cast aside
word: cast off
word: cast away
word: chuck
word: chuck away
word: chuck out
word: discard
word: dispose of
word: ditch
word: dump
word: get rid of
word: jettison
word: pitch
word: scrap
word: shift
word: throw aside
word: throw away
word: throw out
word: toss
word: trash
glosses: To discard; to dispense with something; to throw away.
examples: text: The board threw the man out, because he wouldn't cooperate and agree with their plans to remodernize the facility.
text: The ushers threw the woman out of the auditorium, because she kept shouting out insults to the guest of honor when he made his speech.
glosses: To dismiss or expel someone from any longer performing duty or attending somewhere.
examples: text: Let me throw this out there – how about if we make the igloo out of butter? Would that work?
text: I throw out a challenge to the gay community to dare to walk into this dark corner and offer the light of brotherly love to help these people find themselves.
ref: 1981 August 1, Ray Thompson, “Down and Out and Gay”, in Gay Community News, page 13:
glosses: To offer an idea for consideration.
examples: text: This program keeps throwing out errors.
glosses: To produce in a haphazard fashion.
glosses: To emit.
examples: text: He threw out a couple of half-baked ideas.
coordinate_terms: toss off
glosses: To utter carelessly (a remark, suggestion, proposal, etc.).
examples: text: Using the countless tons of rock from the cliff-face, supplemented by much more from inland, they threw out a huge breakwater, 2,000 ft. long and 80 ft. high, roughly at right angles to the quay, so forming an almost completely sheltered corner. Fifty years later, this massive mole is still standing up to the worst that the Irish Sea can do.
ref: 1956 September, F. F. Nicholls, “Neyland, A Forgotten Harbour”, in Railway Magazine, page 632:
glosses: To cause to project.
glosses: To put into a state of confusion.
glosses: To outdistance; to leave behind.
examples: text: ...while he was putting on his coat, after having completed his work, in preparing to leave for home, he threw out his shoulder.
ref: 1917, Massachusetts. Industrial Accident Board, Reports of Cases under the Workmen's Compensation Act, volume IV, Wright & Potter Printing Co., page 310:
text: But why wasn't Mom there? Sick? No. Threw out her back carrying boxes of blood at a blood drive.
ref: 2004, Al Franken, chapter 31, in Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them : a Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, Dutton, page 274:
glosses: To cause or experience debilitating muscle or joint pain in (a body part).
Synonyms: sense: dismiss or expel someone from duty or attending
word: kick out
word: eject
word: expel
word: kick out
word: lay off