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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]Discover More
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Davies is a freelancer “so I hide out in my study down in deepest Sussex.”
You hide out here till morning and then I'll come back with what weapons I can get.
It might make you trouble and we would be no better off, compelled to hide out in the woods, than we would be in jail.
Think he was fixin' up for a hide-out, in case he should need one?
However, the following day he did take his jumping bar and his roping dummy to the new hide-out.
It was hard to keep the secret of the hide-out to himself; so Jim began to hint darkly to Jean about his lonely spot.
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