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  • 11put out — adjective never before noun annoyed, offended, or upset by something that someone has said or done: She was feeling extremely put out by his rudeness …

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  • 12put out to pasture — put (someone) out to pasture to make someone stop working at their job because they are too old to be useful. At 62, he felt he was not ready to be put out to pasture. Etymology: based on the tradition of keeping farm animals that are too old to… …

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  • 13put out to grass — ► put out to grass 1) put (an animal) out to graze. 2) informal force (someone) to retire. Main Entry: ↑grass …

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  • 14put out to stud — put out/retire/to stud phrase to keep a male animal that no longer works for breeding When Ebony grew too old to race they put him out to stud. Thesaurus: animal breeding and matinghyponym animal farminghyponym …

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  • 15put|out — «PUT OWT», noun. the act of putting a player out in baseball or cricket: »Mantle made all three putouts in his lone inning at short (New York Times) …

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  • 16put out of the way — index dispatch (put to death) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 17put out N. Amer. — put out N. Amer. informal agree to have sex with someone. → put …

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  • 18put out — ► put out 1) inconvenience, upset, or annoy. 2) dislocate (a joint). Main Entry: ↑put …

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  • 19put-out — put′ out n. spo an instance of putting out a batter or base runner in a baseball game • Etymology: 1880–85, amer …

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  • 20Put Out the Lights — is a song by American hard rock band Van Halen. The song never appeared on any studio albums by the band, however several of the demo recording sessions including the infamous Gene Simmons funded demos the band did during the late 1970s feature… …

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