chalk out

English

Verb

chalk out (third-person singular simple present chalks out, present participle chalking out, simple past and past participle chalked out)

1. (transitive) To draw or write down using chalk
2. (transitive, figurative) to make (plans); to sketch
   • 1795–1797, Edmund Burke, “(please specify |letter=1 to 4)”, in [Letters on a Regicide Peace], London: [Rivington]:

     I shall pursue the plan I have chalked out.

3. (US, horse racing) Of a multi-race wager, to lose to the favorite in all of the remaining races.

   A 25-1 shot won race 3, but the rest of the early pick 5 chalked out after that.