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Definition of Count out
1. Verb. Declare the loser.
Definition of Count out
1. Verb. (transitive of a person) To exclude; to dismiss from participation or eligibility. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To enumerate items while organizing or transferring them. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive boxing wrestling) To determine that a competitor has lost a match, by a referee's enumeration aloud of the increments of time for which the competitor has been incapacitated. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Count Out
Literary usage of Count out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Electric Railway Handbook: A Reference Book of Practice Data, Formulas and by Albert Sutton Richey, William Charles Greenough (1915)
"East-bound cars count into AB and CD' at i or 8 and 3 or 6, respectively, and
count out of AB and CD at 2 or 7 and 4 or 5, respectively. ..."
2. The History of Maine by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, Edward Henry Elwell (1892)
"... 1850 —Fusion in 1870 —The "count out"—Its Proceedings Condemned by the Supreme
Court — Fusionists Elect Governor by Plurality Vote in 1830 — Republicans ..."
3. The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine (1869)
"The other keeper that I had given the unchangeable count out her piastres.
bargaining at once by telling the shop- actually ceased disputing, ..."
4. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel, Johann Gottfried Flügel (1861)
"va 1. to count out, fix by number«; Mil. to tell off; 2. Print, to put in (or
lay on) a heap (the quantity of paper for the pressman to wet) ; an ben ..."
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