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noun
1.
an act or instance of shutting out.
2.
the state of being shut out.
3.
Sports.
a.
a preventing of the opposite side from scoring, as in baseball.
b.
any game in which one side does not score.
Origin:
1850–55, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase shut out
1850–55, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase shut out
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Shutout
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| 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. |
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World English Dictionary
| shutout (ˈʃʌtˌaʊt) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | See lock out a less common word for a lockout |
| 2. | sport a game in which the opposing team does not score |
| —vb | |
| 3. | to keep out or exclude |
| 4. | to conceal from sight: we planted trees to shut out the view of the road |
| 5. | to prevent (an opponent) from scoring |
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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