out of turn

out of turn

1. When it is not one's turn.
   • 1960 December, “More L.T. progress with programme machines”, in Trains Illustrated, page 758:

     There are also controls to select out-of-turn working or acknowledge a warning that the programme-roll description of a train and train-describer description are at variance, [...].[...] The machines can automatically take account of late running of trains and, if it exceeds a pre-determined amount, can despatch a train out of turn.

• talk out of turn

• “out of turn”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.