out like a light

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out like a light definition


  1. mod.
    unconscious or sleeping soundly. : I fell and hit my head. I was out like a light for two minutes, they tell me.
  2. mod.
    heavily alcohol intoxicated. : All four of them drank till they were out like a light.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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out like a light

see under out cold.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Out like a light is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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