put out

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Noun 1.1.1 Translations 1.2 Adjective 1.2.1 Translations 1.3 Verb 1.3.1 Usage notes 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Anagrams

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put out (plural put outs)

1. (baseball) The statistic of the number of outs a defensive player directly caused.

   Jones recorded 15 put outs in the first half of the season.

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put out (comparative more put out, superlative most put out)

1. Taking offense; indignant.

   He was put out at the mere suggestion of misconduct.

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to put out (third-person singular simple present puts out, present participle putting out, simple past and past participle put out)

1. (transitive) To place outside or eject.

   Don’t forget to put out the cat.

   Be careful with those scissors, or you'll put your eye out!

2. (transitive) To produce.

   The factory puts out 4000 units each day.

3. (transitive) To injure a joint in the body.

   Don’t put out your back trying to lift that.

4. (transitive) To extinguish (a flame or light).

   They worked for days to put out the brushfire.

5. (slang, intransitive) To consent to sex.
   • 1991, R S Perinbanayagam, Discursive Acts

     He had been going out with this girl — I think her name was Karol — for a couple of months... and she wouldn't put out for him... kept on saying no.

   • 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.

6. (baseball) To cause a player on the offense to be out, especially of men on base.

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• 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.

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• output

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• Anagrams of opttuu
• output