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Definition of Shutout
1. Noun. A defeat in a game where one side fails to score.
Definition of Shutout
1. Noun. Closing and forbidding entry, as a lockout in which management prevents works from working. ¹
2. Noun. (sports) A game that ends with one side not having scored. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shutout
1. a game in which one team fails to score [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shutout
Literary usage of Shutout
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Foster on Auction: A Complete Exposition of the Latest Developments of by Robert Frederick Foster (1918)
"Net saving by the shutout, 190. The importance of the shut-out bid as a defensive
weapon seems to be entirely overlooked by the average player. ..."
2. The Grand Mogul: A Musical Comedy by Gustav Luders, Frank Pixley (1906)
"... and thus a-void That aw-ful sea-sick mo-tion. piv.in~ Oh, what a sinl A cloud
sailed in And shutout all ... A cloud sailed in And shutout all ..."
3. The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1882)
"shutout! shutout! 0 God, may that never lie true of anyone among us, for Christ's
dear name's sake. Amen. POET-ION OP SCRIPTURE BEAD BEFORE ..."