all out
See also: all-out
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Adjective
editall out (not comparable)
- Synonym of out (intensive but synonymous).
- —Do you have any more of those heirloom tomatoes? —Sorry, we're all out.
- (cricket) The state of a side having no more men to bat, thus ending its innings.
- Alternative form of all-out (“comprehensive: using every means or covering every aspect”)
Adverb
editall out (comparative more all out, superlative most all out)
- (idiomatic) With maximum effort.
- (idiomatic) Without regard for risk.
- (idiomatic) Altogether; by far.
- 1840, The Sea: Narratives of Adventure and Shipwreck, Tales and Sketches:
- Oh, bedad! He was all out the worst sight ever came across ould Ireland
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
- Intemperate Venus is all out as bad in the other extreame[sic].
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without regard for risk
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