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Definition of Flat out

1. Adverb. In a blunt direct manner. "He was criticized roundly"

2. Adverb. At top speed. "He was off down the road like blue murder"

Definition of Flat out

1. Adjective. (&lit flat out) ¹

2. Adjective. Complete, total, downright. ¹

3. Adjective. Very busy. ¹

4. Adjective. (Australian) Lazy, sleeping. ¹

5. Adverb. (idiomatic) At top speed. ¹

6. Adverb. (idiomatic) Bluntly, no holds barred, totally, outright. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flat Out

flat condyloma flat earther flat earthers flat feet flat file flat files flat flap flat hand flat iron flat irons

flat junction flat junctions flat knot flat lock flat locks flat out (current term) flat papular syphilid flat pea flat pelvis flat plate

flat rate flat rates flat revertant flat silver flat solid flat space flat spaces flat store flat stores flat tip screwdriver

Literary usage of Flat out

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

1. Dictionary of Americanisms. by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"To flat out. To collapse; to prove a failure. A Western phrase applied to a political meeting; as, " The meeting flatted out. ..."

2. A Woman Rice Planter by Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle (1918)
"The men pushed the flat out and poled it up the river with the greatest ease, and before dark it was safely staked under the flat house, so that my mind ..."

3. Introduction to Zoology: A Guide to the Study of Animals ; for the Use of by Charles Benedict Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty Davenport (1902)
"Legs not spread flat out. di. Spinnerets short and inclined together, ... Legs spread flat out bi. Eyes in 3 transverse rows ; spin no webs, but hunt prey ..."

4. Music: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Art, Science, Technic and by William Smythe Babcock Mathews (1901)
"... C and E flat coalesce into a unity of A flat; and E flat and G coalesce into a unity of E flat. Out of three elements C and G agree with each other; ..."

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