exits

[eg-zit, ek-sit]

ex·it

1[eg-zit, ek-sit]
noun
1.
a way or passage out: Please leave the theater by the nearest exit.
2.
any of the marked ramps or spurs providing egress from a highway: Take the second exit after the bridge for the downtown shopping district.
3.
a going out or away; departure: to make one's exit.
4.
a departure of an actor from the stage as part of the action of a play.
5.
Also called exit card. Bridge. a card that enables a player to relinquish the lead when having it is a disadvantage.
verb (used without object)
6.
to go out; leave.
7.
Bridge. to play an exit card.

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Exits is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
verb (used with object)
8.
to leave; depart from: Sign out before you exit the building.

Origin:
1580–90; partly < Latin exitus act or means of going out, equivalent to exi-, variant stem of exīre to go out (ex- ex-1 + īre to go) + -tus suffix of v. action; partly noun, v. use of exit2

excited, exited.
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ex·it

2[eg-zit, ek-sit]
verb (used without object)
(he or she) goes offstage (used as a stage direction, often preceding the name of the character): Exit Falstaff.

Origin:
1530–40; < Latin ex(i)it literally, (he) goes out, 3rd singular present of exīre; see exit1
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