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hide out

[hahyd-out] Origin

hide·out

[hahyd-out]
noun
a safe place for hiding, especially from the law.
Also, hide-out.


Origin:
1870–75; noun use of verb phrase hide out

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hide

1[hahyd] verb, hid, hid·den or hid, hid·ing, noun
verb (used with object)
1.
to conceal from sight; prevent from being seen or discovered: Where did she hide her jewels?
2.
to obstruct the view of; cover up: The sun was hidden by the clouds.
3.
to conceal from knowledge or exposure; keep secret: to hide one's feelings.
verb (used without object)
4.
to conceal oneself; lie concealed: He hid in the closet.
noun
5.
British. a place of concealment for hunting or observing wildlife; hunting blind.
6.
hide out, to go into or remain in hiding: After breaking out of jail, he hid out in a deserted farmhouse.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English hiden, Old English hȳdan; cognate with Old Frisian hūda, Greek keúthein to conceal

hid·a·ble, adjective
hid·a·bil·i·ty, noun
hid·er, noun


1. screen, mask, cloak, veil, shroud, disguise. Hide, conceal, secrete mean to put out of sight or in a secret place. Hide is the general word: to hide one's money or purpose; A dog hides a bone. Conceal, somewhat more formal, is to cover from sight: A rock concealed them from view. Secrete means to put away carefully, in order to keep secret: The spy secreted the important papers. 3. disguise, dissemble, suppress.


1. reveal, display.

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Word Origin & History

hide
"measure of land" (obsolete), O.E. hid, earlier higid, from hiw- "family" (cf. hiwan "household," hiwo "a husband, master of a household"), from PIE *keiwo- (cf. L. civis "citizen"). The notion was of "amount of land needed to feed one free family and dependents," usually 100 or 120 acres, but the amount
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could be as little as 60, depending on the quality of the land.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Slang Dictionary

hide definition


  1. n.
    the skin. : I need to get some rays on my hide.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Idioms & Phrases

hide out

Go into or stay in hiding, especially from the authorities. For example, The cattle thieves hid out in the canyon, or He decided to hide out from the press. [Late 1800s]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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