Definition of Inside out

1. Adverb. With the inside facing outward. "She turned the shirt inside out"

2. Adverb. Thoroughly; from every perspective. "She knows this town inside out"

Definition of Inside out

1. Adverb. (not comparable) With the inside surface turned to be on the outside. ¹

2. Adverb. Of knowledge: Thoroughly, extremely well. ¹

3. Adverb. (cricket) Describes the hitting of a ball that pitched outside of leg stump to the off side of the field. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inside Out

inside centre
inside clinch
inside dealing
inside diameter
inside edge
inside edged
inside edges
inside edging
inside information
inside job
inside jobs
inside joke
inside jokes
inside lag
inside loop
inside out
inside out patch
inside out vesicle
inside pocket
inside straight draw
inside straight draws
inside track
inside trading
insidely
insideness
insider
insider dealing
insider information
insider trading
insiderdom

Literary usage of Inside out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1899)
"EVERSION OR TURNING inside out OF THE SAC OF A CYS- ... sac through an opening large enough to permit of turning the wall inside out. ..."

2. Studies of a Biographer by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"turning himself inside out for public inspection. Since his time we have had similar exhibitions on a larger scale. Rousseau said that he was making a new ..."

3. English Prose (1137-1890) by John Matthews Manly (1909)
"Thus, in the course of two days, he had turned this wineskin of a Tabary inside out. For a while longer the farce was carried on ; the Prior was introduced ..."

4. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"... if we can only escape David C. Broderick's hired bullies a little while longer, we will turn this city inside out but what we will expose the corruption ..."

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