chill out

See also: chillout and chill-out

English

Etymology

From chill and out.

Pronunciation

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Verb

chill out (third-person singular simple present chills out, present participle chilling out, simple past and past participle chilled out)

1. (intransitive, slang) To relax or take time out; to calm down.

   Synonym: chill

   Since I'm between projects, I think I'll just chill out.

   I wish I could chill out about the neighbor's barking dog, but it wakes me up every night.

   • 2002 April 23, Avril Lavigne, Lauren Christy, Graham Edwards, Scott Spock (lyrics and music), “Complicated”, in Let Go, performed by Avril Lavigne, Arista Records:

     Chill out, whatcha yelling for?

   • 2004, Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead (motion picture):

     Ed: Chill out. Everyone's all right. / Shaun: Stop telling me to chill out!

   • 2004 January 2, Ariel Levy, “Where the Bois Are”, in New York Magazine‎^[1]:

     A girl […] telling her friend, “I met her at a party three weeks ago, but now she’s like e-mailing me and I’m just like, chill out, bitch!”

2. (intransitive, slang, somewhat dated) To hang out; spend time together with another person or group.

   Synonyms: chill, hang out

   Hey, we should chill out together this weekend.

Related terms

• chillout

Translations

relax or take time out

• Arabic: إِسْتَرْخَى‎ (ʔistarḵā)
• Bulgarian: успокоявам се (uspokojavam se), отпускам се (otpuskam se)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冷静 (zh) (lěngjìng)

• Finnish: chillata (fi)
• French: se calmer (fr), se détendre (fr), se relaxer (fr)
• German: sich entspannen
• Italian: calmarsi (it), rilassarsi (it)
• Polish: uspokoić się (pl) pf, wyluzować się pf, wyluzować pf, rozluźnić się (pl) pf, zrelaksować się pf
• Portuguese: relaxar (pt), sossegar (pt)
• Scottish Gaelic: gabh socair
• Spanish: relajarse (es)
• Swedish: ta det lugnt (sv), slappna av (sv), chilla (sv) (slang)
• Turkish: rahatlamak (tr), sakinleşmek (tr)

See also

• chill
• take a chill pill
• chillax
• unwind

Noun

chill out (plural chill outs)

1. Alternative spelling of chillout