stay out

English

Verb

stay out (third-person singular simple present stays out, present participle staying out, simple past and past participle stayed out)

1. To spend the evening out of one's house.

   He stayed out all night in the bar.

2. (obsolete) To outstay; to stay longer than.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:

     The company had now staid so long, that Mrs Fitzpatrick plainly perceived they all designed to stay out each other. She therefore resolved to rid herself of Jones, he being the visitant to whom she thought the least ceremony was due.

Derived terms

• stay out of

Anagrams

• outstay