Throw-out Definition

noun

Alternative form of throw-out.

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A discard, rejection.

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An item that is thrown out to an audience or crowd, usually for dramatic effect.
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(soccer) An overarm throw of the ball from a goalkeeper.

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(baseball) A put-out caused by a throw to a base of a fielded ground ball.

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verb

(idiomatic) To discard; to dispense with something; to throw away.

Just throw out that pen if it doesn't write anymore.
They decided to throw out the idea because it would have been too expensive.
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(idiomatic) To dismiss or expel someone from any longer performing duty or attending somewhere.

The board threw the man out, because he wouldn't cooperate and agree with their plans to remodernize the facility.
The ushers threw the woman out of the auditorium, because she kept shouting out insults to the guest of honor when he made his speech.
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(idiomatic) To offer an idea for consideration.
Let me throw this out there - how about if we make the igloo out of butter? Would that work?
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Other Word Forms of Throw-out

Noun

Singular:
throw-out
Plural:
throw-outs

Throw-out Sentence Examples

  • The only downside to eBay is the instability of stock--you never know what they'll have available because it's dependent on what people have in their throw-out pile at home.

  • Maybe they knew what kind of bait to throw out.

  • Following up this line of investigation, Major Ronald Ross in 1895 found that if a mosquito sucked blood containing the parasites they soon began to throw out flagellae, which broke away and became free; and in 1897 he discovered peculiar pigmented cells, which afterwards turned out to be the parasites of aestivo-autumnal malaria in an early stage of development, within the stomachwall of mosquitoes which had been fed on malarial blood.

  • The wooded hills to the northward throw out to the south and south-west long spurs, between which are the low valleys of several rivers and brooks.

  • The same ends may sometimes be effected by merely working fine soil in amongst the base of the stems, and giving them time to throw out roots before parting them.

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