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Meaning of out-and-out

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

out-and-out

adjective

Definitions

  1. Complete, utter.

    Example: He is an out-and-out idiot.

  2. (animal husbandry) thoroughly cross-bred; a breeding strategy esp. with poultry where new roosters are circulated yearly to maintain a mongrel flock.

    Example: 1840, The Sporting Magazine, May 1840, Vol XXI Second Series

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/out-and-out

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