stripdown

Before commencing the engine stripdown itself, ensure that you have the correct workshop manual for your particular machine.

2004, Mick Walker, Moto Guzzi Twins Restoration, page 54:

The disassembly of a mechanical system into its separate components.


readback

Deverbal from read back, as in read that back to me, please.

OK, now let's do a readback before you send this off.

The judge ordered a readback of a portion of the testimony.

(dictation, stenography) The reading aloud by a transcriptionist, court reporter, or stenographer of draft correspondence or of testimony previously taken down in dictation, usually at the request of the presiding judge or parties involved in a deposition (courtroom contexts) or of the manager dictating the correspondence (business contexts).


rubout

A direct manipulation editor would support, for example, a single rubout key that uses the cursor to find the appropriate character for deletion […]

1990, Michael D. Harrison, Harold Thimbleby, Formal methods in human-computer interaction, page 130:

The TS-1000 had ENTER instead of NEW LINE and DELETE instead of RUBOUT.

2002, Brotha G, “ZX81 Prototype Keyboard”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):

(computing, uncountable, by extension, dated) Synonym of backspace.


put-out

en-adj

put-out (comparative more put-out, superlative most put-out)

more put-out (comparative)
most put-out (superlative)


send-off

A send-off occurs when a player commits a serious violation and is ordered by the referee to leave the field for the rest of the game.

2009, Mathew Brown, Patrick Guthrie, Greg Growden, Rugby For Dummies, →ISBN, page 333:

Some of the players tried to heavy or sweet-talk the referee into reversing his decision, even as the threat of a send-off loomed.

2009, Shireen Lolesi, Wives and Girlfriends, →ISBN, page 12:

Dally had a running battle with the referee, who accused him of kneeing an opponent — though, given a punch was enough to earn a send-off, perhaps the official was unsure of what he saw as Dally was not asked to leave the field.

2011, Sean Fagan, Dally Messenger III, The Master, →ISBN:

(sports) A penalty for a serious infraction of the rules in which the player is ordered to leave for the rest of the game; red card


roundoff

roundoffs (plural)
round-off (alternative)

(mathematics) The act of rounding off a number.


set-up

en-adjective

set-up (comparative more set-up, superlative most set-up)

more set-up (comparative)
most set-up (superlative)

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set-up time. The time taken to SET UP a machine or to change it from making one product to another.

1990, John Bessant, Richard Lamming, Macmillan Dictionary of Production Technology and Management, Palgrave Macmillan UK, page 153:

(chiefly British) Alternative form of setup.


set-up

Stevenage's first-half performance forced a change of formation from Newcastle at the break, as they brought on Nile Ranger for Leon Best and switched to a 4-2-3-1 set-up.

2011 January 8, Paul Fletcher, “Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle”, in BBC:

A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays. This set-up solves several problems […].

2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):


stockout

stockouts (plural)
stock out (alternative)
stock-out (alternative)

Deverbal from stock out, ultimately from the prepositional phrase out of stock.

(business) An instance of an item being out of stock; the situation where an order cannot be fulfilled from current inventory.


lie-down

have a lie-down; have a little lie-down; have a wee lie-down

After a long morning working, he decided to have a little lie-down before cooking lunch.

(especially Commonwealth English) A short period of rest while lying.


stand-out

Luiz was Chelsea's stand-out performer, although Ferguson also had a case when he questioned how the £21m defender escaped a red card after the break for a hack at Rooney, with the Brazilian having already been booked.

2011 March 1, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC:

This is the stand-out lesson of Carmont. We MUST respond to extreme weather not only much more rapidly, but also on a more granular basis.

2022 March 23, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Drains, trains and Control”, in RAIL, number 953, page 3:


read-through

A read-through cache presents a simple abstraction to the calling code, which no longer has to handle the case where the information is available but not cached.

(computing) A cache that will fetch information from the original source when asked for information that is not yet cached.


foldup

A storage wall supports a desk, two drawers, two shelves, a bookcase, a reading light, a foldup table and the bed frame.

2007 November 30, Wendy Moonan, “From City to City, 20th-Century Art and Furniture”, in New York Times:


foldup

A card table, three foldups, the bulging single bed, and an ice chest served as furniture.

2002, Gary Paul Nabhan, The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in O'Odham Country, page 30:

Judy was attracted to Mesa Flats Resort primarily because of the ballroom, which could be converted into a performance venue with stage and lighting. Granted the chairs were fold-ups, the stage was small with only one dressing room, […]

2015, George T. Lindsey, Mesa Flats Resort Predators and Politics, page 56:


cutdown

A customized scooter with parts of the bodywork removed or cut away.


seethrough

en-adj

seethrough (comparative more seethrough, superlative most seethrough)

more seethrough (comparative)
most seethrough (superlative)

1969: Barbra Streisand’s seethrough, bell-bottom Scaasi pajamas.

2008 February 17, Anita Gates, “There Will Be Memories”, in New York Times:


shootdown

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, who personally gave the order to go ahead with the satellite shootdown Wednesday, told reporters in Hawaii on Thursday that he was prepared to share some details of the operation with China to ease its concerns that the debris might still prove dangerous.

2008 February 22, Thom Shanker, “An Errant Satellite Is Gone, but Questions Linger”, in New York Times:

The shooting down of an aircraft, satellite, etc.


sign-out

sign-outs (plural)
signout (alternative)

An instance of signing out; a procedure executed when exiting a facility, ending a computer session, etc.


rollup

rollups (plural)
roll-up (alternative)
roll up (alternative)

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In some cases, you may want to add custom rollups that change the way a measure is calculated on a specific level.

2013, Simon Lidberg, Getting Started with SQL Server 2012 Cube Development:

That which is rolled up; a summation; an aggregation; a total.


closedown

en-noun

closedown (countable and uncountable, plural closedowns)

(radio, television) The point when a radio or television station shuts down transmission and goes off the air for a predetermined period, as used to happen overnight.

Sendeschluss

the point when a radio or television station shuts down transmission


tideover

a tideover allowance

Designed to support someone through a brief but often difficult period, especially financially.


runover

CBS ranked No. 1 on Sunday night, aided by “60 Minutes” and an 18-minute runover into the 7 o’clock hour of live basketball coverage from the afternoon.

2009 March 31, Felicia R. Lee, “Television Ratings”, in New York Times:

(television) The situation where a television programme overruns its scheduled slot.


lookover

Originally, whole-body imaging was proposed as an alternative for the relatively few passengers chosen for secondary screening, allowing them to opt for a machine lookover rather than a physical pat-down.

2009 April 14, Joe Sharkey, “Looking You Over, With a Shameless Gaze”, in New York Times:


line-up

The result in Greece meant Tottenham could not progress, no matter how many goals they scored against Rovers but, after making nine changes to his starting line-up, Harry Redknapp will be pleased with the performance of his fringe players.

2011 December 15, Marc Higginson, “Shamrock Rovers 0 - 4 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:

The railway faces a line-up of strong-willed metro mayors with four-year terms and a new big-majority government covering the same period.

2024 November 13, Peter Plisner, “Rail's role in Labour's "devolution revolution"”, in RAIL, number 1022, page 61:


rolldown

Then he rolled down the wooden blinds inside, opened the door and pulled halfway down the metal rolldown shutter outside.


lookaside

lookaside (countable and uncountable, plural lookasides)

(computing) The technique of searching for something in a precalculated cache before attempting a more time-consuming search elsewhere.


putaway

If a putaway is done incorrectly, it is difficult to find an item, or verify that an incorrect part number or quantity has been used.

2005, Steven M. Bragg, Inventory accounting: a comprehensive guide, page 73:

The process of storing goods in a warehouse etc. as they are received.


winddown

winddown (usually uncountable, plural winddowns)

Keeping this power apart from the Fed also prevents it from being drawn into the political maelstrom of whether to lend funds to a weakened institution or to seize it for an orderly winddown.

2009 August 2, “Letters: Risk and Regulation”, in New York Times:


let-up

It rained for a week with no let-up.

There's no let-up in the ship-bound sector.

2022 January 26, Tom Allett, “A gateway to freight growth”, in RAIL, number 949, page 48:


stand-off

France's own stand-in stand-off Trinh-Duc missed with a drop-goal when well set but then set off on a curving run through a scattered defensive line which carried him deep into enemy territory until Weepu's desperate tap-tackle finally brought him down.

2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport:


scaleback

Budgetary constraints led to a scaleback in quality.

An operation by which something is scaled back or reduced.


kickup

kickup (countable and uncountable, plural kickups)

(countable) A controlled kick that sends a ball upwards.


oversail

en-verb

oversail (third-person singular simple present oversails, present participle oversailing, simple past and past participle oversailed)

oversails (present singular third-person)
oversailing (participle present)
oversailed (participle past)
oversailed (past)

(law) To project over (as of a crane, bridge or cables over neighbouring property); especially in relation to any legal right to do so.


ridealong

Bouza also confirmed that the police had brought two civilians with tem, including the 19-year-old son of one officer who helped to carry out the beer which was seized as evidence. Both were registered as "ride alongs" that night and their presence did not violate any laws, but Bouza saw this as another instance in which the officers showed "questionable judgment."

1983 August 20, Ruth Borenstein, “Harassment, Bad Judgment Cited in Twin Cities Bust”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 6, page 6:


clearout

But tries from Marlie Packer and Amy Cokayne pulled Mitchell's side clear before Khalfaoui saw her dangerous ruck clearout upgraded to a red card by the television match official 'bunker' system.

2024 April 27, Alastair Telfer, “England beat France to seal Grand Slam hat-trick”, in BBC Sport:


follow-on

Baby formula (breast milk substitute) for slightly older infants.


burndown

Deverbal from burn down. In the software-development sense, perhaps suggesting a burning fuse.

Avoid creating separate status reports for management; these reports duplicate information in the sprint burndowns[…]

2012, Mark C. Layton, Agile Project Management For Dummies, page 85:

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) In agile software development, a chart showing how much work remains to be completed.


pindown

solitary confinement
solitary confinement

(UK) solitary confinement, formerly used as a method of punishment in children's homes


turn-up

Why does all this fluff accumulate in the turn-ups?

Fabric turned up at the bottom of trousers to make them shorter.

маншет

fabric turned up at the bottom of trousers

I'll bet $10 that the next turn-up is an ace.

(card games) The next card taken from the top of a pack of cards and displayed.

Despondent settled down favourite, but ran badly, and the fielders had a fine turn up by the success of Carlton Spring, on whom Allsopp jumped off in front and stayed there.

1896, Henry Smurthwaite, Racing Illustrated, volume 3, page 236:

I thought ‘now here's a turn up’, for I was not to know I would be invited to drinks every day for the next three years.

2001 December 9, Andrew Martin, “We like drinking too much, so why do we do it so badly?”, in The Observer:

turn up for the book
turn up for the book#English

(figurative) A stroke of good luck; something that appears unexpectedly; especially in turn up for the book.


check-up

(often used attributively) Alternative form of checkup.


answerback

(telecommunications) A response to a message, originally in radio but now through other media.


roll-up

a roll-up door

a roll-up display banner

Capable of being made into a cylinder shape by rolling.


set-off

уравняване

extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors

D. Jerrold
I do not contemplate such a heroine as a set-off to the many sins imputed to me as committed against woman.

That which is set off against another thing; an offset.

(dated) That which is used to improve the appearance of anything; a decoration; an ornament.

(law) A counterclaim; a cross debt or demand; a distinct claim filed or set up by the defendant against the plaintiff's demand.

(finance) The situation where a bank or similar organisation repays itself money owed by an accountholder out of his or her account.


loadout

en-noun

loadout (countable and uncountable, plural loadouts)

Throughout this period, and beyond, into the rest of the battle, aircraft of various types and loadouts are crisscrossing the skies in desperate harassment attacks, with the pilots having to play constant games of "guess the carrier" to decide where to land as escort carriers are hit, sunk, disappear in columns of shell splashes, or are forced to evade at angles to the wind that make landing on them impossible.

2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 27:22 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 2022-11-03:

(originally military) The set of objects (e.g., equipment, supplies) to be carried into battle, onto a jobsite, etc.; all that one needs for a specific purpose.

I've got my custom loadout, a holographic scoped assault rifle and a stock of claymore mines to use to cover my back as I look out over the wreckage of the downed transport plane for insurgents.

2015, Alan F. Meades, Understanding Counterplay in Video Games:

(by extension, video games) A set of items and abilities chosen by the player before embarking on an in-game mission.


tiedown

tiedowns (plural)
tie-down (alternative)

The rules in this section apply to tiedown assemblies (including chains, cables, steel Straps, and fiber webbing), other securement devices, and attachment or fastening devices used in conjunction therewith, which are used to secure cargo to motor vehicles in transit.

1974, Code of Federal Regulations: 1949-1984, page 336:

A rope, strap, chain, or line used to secure a load or item.


cropout

The dark overo cropouts often have wide blazes on the face and do not have the bald or apron faces that are associated with the overo color pattern.

1988, Glynn W. Haynes, The American Paint Horse, page 92:

A horse that has spotted coloration but whose sire and dam were both solid-coloured.


get-out

[…] it is therefore prudent to include the get-out costs in the production budget rather than as an accrual in the running budget.

2014, Julius Green, How to Produce a West End Show:

[…] ensuring everything is ready for the company's get-in, including the get-out of the previous production […]

2016, Susan Cooper, Staging Dance, page 103:

The dismantling and removal of equipment, scenery, etc. when leaving a theater or television studio at the end of a production.


look-back

look-backs (plural)
lookback (alternative)
look back (alternative)

Deverbal from look back, equivalent to look + back.

Standardized tests allow for students to engage in look-backs but, unfortunately, many students do not utilize this opportunity.

2008, JoAnne Schudt Caldwell, Comprehension Assessment:

A look in a backward or retrospective manner; an additional or secondary look; a review.


suck-up

Dulcie was already holding Lidiaʼs hand, and she didnʼt even know her! What a suck-up.

2005, Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl, Bloomsbury, page 139:

A person who sucks up, or plays up through adulation or flattery or other such devices to win another's favour; a brown-noser.


takeback

takeback (countable and uncountable, plural takebacks)

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the takeback of products that have reached the end of their useful life

The act of taking back or reclaiming anything.


spinup

spinup (countable and uncountable, plural spinups)

(computing) The process of a disk drive spinning up.


break-off

break-offs (plural)
breakoff (alternative)

Stable glacier advance and retreat Advancing glaciers may inundate land, override installations (e.g., hydropower installations), dam rivers and form lakes, cause ice break-offs when the glacier advances over a cliff, etc.

2011, Vijay P. Singh, Pratap Singh, Umesh K. Haritashya, Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers, page 767:


backoff

backoff (countable and uncountable, plural backoffs)

a backoff strategy to avoid collisions

(computing) The situation where an algorithm or process refrains from taking an action it would otherwise have taken.

The surfer is in the middle of a backoff. Paddle for unbroken waves butterfly-style, with both arms at the same time, instead of using the crawl stroke that got you out to where the waves are breaking.

1997, James MacLaren, Learn to Surf, page 82:

I fastened the board's leash to my ankle, jumped on and paddled past the backoff.

2012, Kimberly Young Chopin, Metamorphosis: A Love Story, page 22:

(surfing) The situation where an incoming wave passes from shallower water to a deeper area, making the wave less steep and potentially unsurfable.


passback

Because each card reader is programmed for either entrance or exit, users must pass in and out before being allowed to reenter, thus eliminating passback.

1988, Security Management, volume 32, numbers 1-6, page 107:

Modern electronic access systems have many features to enhance the level of access control to a facility, area, or room. Turnstiles, interlocking mantraps, and parkade gates are combined with access readers to prevent passback […]

2003, IFPO, The Protection Officer Training Manual, page 99:

The circumvention of an access restriction to a physical site by passing one's access card to another person after having entered.


boilover

boilover (countable and uncountable, plural boilovers)

[…] there was not much good horsemanship. The Derby itself was an ordinary race, something of a boilover for Dark Star […]

1953, Pastoralists' Review (volume 63, issues 7-12, page 716)

(Australia, New Zealand, slang, countable) A sporting event with an unexpected outcome, especially a horse race where the favourite fails to win.


setaside

Setasides are stated either in dollar amounts or as a percentage of total funds; in either case, setasides are taken "off the top" of the program's funds.

1992, Paula Duggan, Making sense of federal dollars, page 27:


stepdown

(of a transformer) Used to decrease the secondary voltage relative to the primary voltage.


wipedown

wipedowns (plural)
wipe-down (alternative)

I have to give my taxi a quick wipedown after lunch.

The cloudy windows that have inspired complaints from riders on social media for several years need more than a squirt of window cleaner and a wipe down. They need to be replaced.

2022 October 10, Larry Higgs, The Star-Ledger:

The act of cleaning the exterior of an object, typically by hand using a damp dishcloth or other cleaning cloth.


speakout

Sui Wai Anderson, a pianist and songwriter, performed two original compositions and preceded a speak-out by two women who gave personal accounts of illegal abortions they obtained before the 1973 Supreme Court decision.

1984 February 4, Sue Hyde, “Abortion Activists Mark Jan 22. Anniversary”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 13:

What they lack, though, is something that has to do with the stepping of the individual storyteller into the public when she (or he) tells her (or his) own rape story in a speakout.

2002, The Subject of Violence: Arendtean Exercises in Understanding, →ISBN:

A public forum or meeting at which members of a community speak out about an issue facing the community, e.g. rape.


fix-up

In The Martian Chronicles (1950), another fix-up novel, Ray Bradbury returns time and again to the trope of the abandoned city, as mass migrations from town to country and from one planet to another render cities obsolete.

2016, Steffen Hantke, Monsters in the Machine: Science Fiction Film and the Militarization of America after World War II, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 214:

A novel created from (possibly unrelated, and possibly previously published) pieces of short fiction.


split-up

My desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups, in chronological order:[…]

1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 9:


stand-by

stand-by (countable and uncountable, plural stand-bys)

[…] a "Britannia" Pacific, No. 70006, was kept as a stand-by at March.

1962 April, “Motive power miscellany: Eastern Region”, in Modern Railways, page 279:


lock-up

At the top of George Street the Bear Inn, once the court house, has detached 17th-century columns supporting the upper floor. Close by is the old lock-up, dated 1824.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 68:


put-up

Orrin Judd at the BrothersJudd.com declared that Carroll "may as well just come right out and say she was a willing participant" . . . and a commenter at RedState.com asserted, ". . . I say the kidnapping was a put up deal from the get go."

2006 April 7, Jim Geraghty, “Where Blogosphere Has Succeeded, And Where It's Fallen Short”, in CBS News, retrieved 2015-06-27:

Gerald Green . . . said he was innocent and the documents were a deliberate effort, perhaps concocted by a superior officer, to frame him. . . . "The whole thing was a put-up stunt."

2009 March 28, Dina Kraft, “British war hero to be investigated again for murder of Jewish 'terrorist'”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 2015-06-27:

A “romantically obsessed ” Italian man was yesterday acquitted of conspiring to steal his former lover ’s mobile phone by commissioning a hapless duo to take it from her after a put-up mock traffic accident.

2012 June 23, Waylon Johnston, “Cleared of setting up theft scenario”, in Times of Malta, retrieved 2015-06-27:

None of this is a sham: it is not a put-up show for us.

2013 April 3, Anurag Behar, “RTE and the activity trap”, in livemint.com, retrieved 2015-06-27:

(of an event) Secretly arranged in advance, especially in order to defraud someone or to advance one's own interests. [from 19th c.]


selldown

selldowns (plural)
sell-down (alternative)

Telstra Corporation was down 11 cents, or 3.17 per cent, at $3.36 continuing Friday's drop that followed a selldown by the Future Fund, the nation's sovereign wealth fund.

2009 August 24, “Market takes a big leap forward”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 2009-08-28:

(Australia, economics) The selling of sufficient shares to significantly reduce their price.


paydown

paydown (countable and uncountable, plural paydowns)

The significant cash flow of the enlarged entity following a combination would allow for rapid debt paydown and the continued funding of growth initiatives.

2009 September 7, “Letters to Cadbury: 'I would ask you to reconsider your rejection ... '”, in Guardian:

(finance) The reissue of an unpaid debt for less than the initial issue.


shareout

shareouts (plural)
share-out (alternative)

The process of sharing something out between multiple parties.


roughout

We distinguish three types of flakes that reflect the principal changes of the state of the shaped tool, from the unworked raw material volume to the finished tool, passing through the roughout and preform phases.

2015 July 11, “The Still Bay and Howiesons Poort at Sibudu and Blombos: Understanding Middle Stone Age Technologies”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

The process of roughing out; anything that has been thus roughed out.


squeezeout

squeezeouts (plural)
squeeze-out (alternative)

(business) A situation in which individuals are forced out of a position by others, e.g. minority shareholders being forced to sell their shares.


pile-on

We are in a time of never-ending Twitter pile-ons. Sometimes the criticism is warranted: Twitter can be a place for marginalised voices to amplify or bring attention to an injustice they have suffered.

2019 November 19, Brigid Delaney, “It's the era of the Twitter pile-on. Isn't there something healthier we can do with our rage?”, in The Guardian:

A social media “pile-on” against anyone who criticises Sinn Féin does not aid or assist the party, its housing spokesman has said.

2020 December 6, Marie O'Halloran, “Social media ‘pile on’ against Sinn Féin critics does not aid party, Ó Broin says”, in The Irish Times:

Muzzling Kelly also elevates a semi-professional obscurantist to the status of free speech martyr, and that invites a cacophonous pile-on from the rightwing bobble heads who screech about the left’s obsession with identity politics while shovelling identity politics at their audiences.

2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, “Scott Morrison must heed the lesson of Donald Trump and slap down Craig Kelly”, in The Guardian:

Online, there’s a level of industrial-scale bullying directed at Heard that puts all previous social media pile-ons to shame.

2022 May 18, Michelle Goldberg, “Amber Heard and the Death of #MeToo”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

An argument or fight in which one side is greatly advantaged by being more numerous or more closely allied than the other side.


freeze-up

(seasons, time) The start of the time when surface waters are frozen over.


kickdown

kickdowns (plural)
kick-down (alternative)

kickdown linkage

automatic transmission
automatic transmission

(automotive, often attributive) In a vehicle with automatic transmission, a downshift triggered by pressing down the throttle pedal.


flopover

flopover (countable and uncountable, plural flopovers)

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Now you have mirror-clear TV without picture flopover, jitter, tear!

1956, LIFE, volume 41, number 11, page 41:

(television) A form of television signal distortion where the displayed image appears to scroll vertically rather than remaining still.


holddown

holddowns (plural)
hold-down (alternative)

(engineering) A clamping device that holds another structural element in place.


stackup

stackup (countable and uncountable, plural stackups)

tolerance stackup

They failed to account for the tolerance stackup, which cost us a ton of scrap and weeks of lead time.

(engineering) A diagram used to calculate the effects of accumulated variation in dimensions and tolerances; the effects thus diagrammed.


clapback

clapback (countable and uncountable, plural clapbacks)

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While these bits of online affirmation are addicting, so too are the online takedowns, the clapbacks, the snark.

2020 March 9, “'It's so toxic': why we're addicted to mean online gossip about women”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-10:

“My first truly viral video was a clapback to a nasty comment someone made about me being a stupid millenial and telling me to ‘go eat toast’,” Kung recalls.

2023 October 7, Ajesh Patalay, quoting Jon Kung, “The Naked Chef 2.0”, in FT Weekend, HTSI, page 77:

(countable, originally African-American Vernacular, informal) A witty or sarcastic retort.


stopoff

A short visit somewhere, on the way to another place.


paintover

An instance of painting over the top of something, such as an existing artwork or a graffiti tag.


sellback

The act of selling something back to the seller.


log-in

en-verb

log-in (third-person singular simple present logs in, present participle logging in, simple past and past participle logged in)

logs in (present singular third-person)
logging in (participle present)
logged in (participle past)
logged in (past)


log-on

log-on (third-person singular simple present logs on, present participle logging on, simple past and past participle logged on)

logs on (present singular third-person)
logging on (participle present)
logged on (participle past)
logged on (past)


stopout

(education) A student who leaves an academic institution but later returns to continue studying.


mess-up

(informal) A person who makes many mistakes.


pasteup

A form of graffiti consisting of stickers or sheets stuck onto a vertical surface.


knockaround

Now they’re both correct. Mr. Penn has joined the cast of “The Three Stooges,” a new MGM comedy based on the vintage film shorts of that knockaround trio, Variety reported. Mr. Penn, who recently won his second Academy Award, for playing the title role in Gus Van Sant’s “Milk,” is set to play Larry, the wire-haired, violin-wielding Stooge.

2009 March 26, “Nyuk Nyuk Huh? Sean Penn Joins ‘Three Stooges’ Movie”, in New York Times:


goback

Although no subsequent year matched this high percentage of returnees, disconsolate "gobacks" remained a permanent feature of the overland emigrations […]

How many turned around and headed for wherever they came from is not known, but these "gobacks" or "turnarounds," as many emigrants called them, often complained that there was either little or no grass for their animals or that there was too much cholera or that the Indian threat was too great.

2005, David Dary, The Oregon Trail: An American Saga, page 230:

(US, historical, sometimes derogatory) An emigrant heading west on the Oregon Trail who gave up and turned back to the east.


scrubdown

Within a week or so a strict regimen of cleanliness wherever there was food or crumbs or spills, coupled with repeated thorough scrubdowns with vinegar and water, rid us of the pests and set a higher standard so that it did not occur again.

2011, Gordon W. Stead, A Leaf upon the Sea: A Small Ship in the Mediterranean, 1941-1943:

A thorough scrubbing to clean something from top to bottom.


kill-off

a mass kill-off of marine organisms

The process of killing something off; an elimination.


sign-on

en-noun

sign-on (countable and uncountable, plural sign-ons)

At Ryder, Habib used sign-ons as a way to attract key talent to the transportation company.

1997, Informationweek - Issues 625-637, page 85:

NEPRC gave me excellent comparotives on all Northeast Jobs: Salaries, incentives, sign-ons, loan repay, relocation, bonuses, benefits in minutes.

2009, Emergency Medicine - Volume 41, Issues 1-6, page 49:

Sign-ons, to be fair, are neither a gift nor a bonus. They are payments for surrendering what remuneration an executive was promised at the job he's leaving.

2010, Chris Roush, Show Me the Money, →ISBN:


lead-up

Retailers get a lot more business in the lead-up to Christmas.

While testing the stability of the exchange rate regime in the market is clearly important in the lead-up to adopting the euro, such a test is certainly possible in the context of a CBA: the current account position, the level of reserves, monetary aggregates, growth performance, and interest rates provide clear indications of whether exchange rates are at appropriate levels.

2000, Anne Marie Gulde, Juha Kähkönen, Peter Keller, Pros and Cons of Currency Board Arrangements in the Lead-Up to EU Accession and Participation in the Euro Zone, →ISBN:

If the crust does behave as a CP system, stress correlation lengths should grow in the lead-up to large events through the action of small to moderate ruptures and drop sharply once a large event occurs.

2002, Peter Mora, David Place, “Stress Correlation Function Evolution in Lattice Solid Elasto-dynamic Models of Shear and Fracture Zones and Earthquake Prediction”, in Earthquake Processes, →ISBN:

The Tertiary is the lead-up to the extinction event that will take centre stage in later chapters: the megafauna extinctions.

2013, Steve Webb, Corridors to Extinction and the Australian Megafauna, →ISBN, page 41:

An event, or sequence of events, that leads up to something; the period during which these events occur.


dress-up

One day, I happened to catch a glimpse of my daughter Annie, age three, playing dress-up with her pals at the family day care program she attends twice a week. Each child had a hat on his or her head and was pretending to be a circus clown.

1995, Working Mother: The Power of Dress-up, volume 18, number 2, page 48:

(informal) A child's game of putting on different clothes and pretending to be different people.


blankout

Every now and then – during his blankouts – he would be capable of making a more sophisticated inductive or deductive connection.


run-out

run-out (countable and uncountable, plural run-outs)


lookbehind

lookbehind (countable and uncountable, plural lookbehinds)

[There] are times when it's useful to be able to look to the left of the current position being considered to see what the past had to say about a particular pattern. That is the purpose of lookbehinds.

2004, Mehran Habibi, Java Regular Expressions: Taming the java.util.regex Engine:

(regular expressions) The analysis of the preceding characters before the regular expression is matched.


lookaround

lookaround (countable and uncountable, plural lookarounds)

(regular expressions) Collective term for lookahead and lookbehind.


pull-out

There's a little pull-out table under the sink, too.

2023 February 8, Greg Morse, “Crossing the border... by Sleeper”, in RAIL, number 976, page 42:


muck-up

(informal) The act of botching something; an incompetent mistake.


spellout

(linguistics) A stage in producing an utterance that comes between syntax and the interface with the phonological form, according to Chomsky's minimalist program.


sign-off

sign-off (countable and uncountable, plural sign-offs)


put-in

The abovementioned scenario is illegal, and the referee would order a scrum at the place of the original penalty, with the put in to the black team.

2005 June 30, Designated Members of the Rugby Committee, Clarification 3 2005, World Rugby

The whole point of the laws as drawn is to make the scrum a contest whereby the put-in side has the advantage of timing the feed and having its hooker closer to the ball.

2013 September 30, Brian Moore, “Crooked put-ins make scrums a test of brute strength”, in The Daily Telegraph:

(rugby) restarting play by rolling or throwing the ball into the scrum; the right to do this


hook-up

The unfortunate thing about calling the season seven finale “The Dragon And The Wolf” is you can’t even reference it by name without picturing Daenerys Targaryen’s long-awaited hook-up with Jon Snow, her strapping hunk of an ally and also her nephew.

2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:


swapover

A conversion or transition from one thing to another; a changeover.


hollaback

Deverbal from holla back, see hollaback girl.

You ain't no hollaback dwarf.

2005 December 17, xyblor, “-Crawl- YAVP: Um the Human Air Elementalist (long)”, in rec.games.roguelike.misc (Usenet):

On "Promiscuous" and "Maneater," Furtado shades her hollaback sass with erotic menace, and on "Glow" she marries new wave and hip-hop like Debbie Harry redux.

2006 June, “Funky Mother”, in SPIN, volume 22, number 6, page 84:

Jeannie Staggaback is made of coconuts and sugar and ginger, and is way too strong and tasty to be any sort of hollaback.

2008 August 25, N Jill Marsh, “Did You Know It's Sunday??”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet):

(rare) Alternative form of hollaback girl.


stand-down

(military) A time when soldiers are not on alert


blockout

blockout (countable and uncountable, plural blockouts)

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come-along

The kayak was tied to the roof of her car with two come alongs.

A chain-type come-along is not as popular as a wire rope come-along, because the chain type is usually heavier and is designed primarily to be rigged for straight pulls.

1993, Robert Worsing, Rural Rescue and Emergency Care, →ISBN, page 64:

For heavy fences that are seriously out of alignment, it really helps to use a come-along — so long as you've got something solid to hitch it to and enough cable to pull with.

1999, George Nash, Wooden Fences, →ISBN, page 221:

The come-along's construction is based on the same principles as that of the hackamore in Figure B, but it is more effective.

2013, Fay E. Ward, The Cowboy at Work, →ISBN:

(technical) A type of hand-operated winch used, for example, to tighten straps, chains, or ropes.


liftout

(typography) A quotation taken from the main text and given special visual treatment.


run-around

The Board points to Driver Supervisor Wade Seal's testimony that a dispatcher was not doing his job right when he deliberately ran around a driver (Tr. 1414(2)) and the portion of Booe's testimony where Booe obviously wished to avoid stating that the company had a policy of permitting deliberate run-arounds.

Use run-arounds to fill the white space around irrigularly shared artwork.

2013, A.E. Cawkell, Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Information Technology and Systems:

They like phone calls but resent telephone run-arounds and response delays.

2013, Natalie Canavor, Business Writing For Dummies, →ISBN, page 26:

We have big people-carrier, and also a little run-around for popping to the shops.

The car had captured his attention even then, as It had seemed so out of place in a street full of Peugeots, and Renaults, and six-seater Fiat run-arounds.

2010, Mario Reading -, The Mayan Codex, →ISBN:

She followed him to his fancy car, incongruous between the battered, old run-arounds on either side, and made another inarticulate noise as he beeped it open.

2014, Cathy Williams, A Tempestuous Temptation, →ISBN:

We got a shockingly low price for it and bought a small tin-can run-around.

2016, Liz Nugent, Lying In Wait, →ISBN, page 134:


ride-on

A lawn mower designed to be ridden rather than pushed.


tagout

lockout–tagout

After lockout, don't forget tagout — you have to communicate to others what the status is.

The affixing of a label to potentially dangerous machinery to indicate why it has been shut down. To avoid accidents, only the person who affixed the label is authorized to remove it and restart the machinery.


talkover

talkover (countable and uncountable, plural talkovers)

An instance of talking over someone; an interruption that continues over another's speech.


fitout

The furnishing of a ship or similar space.


wetdown

Water trucks needed for wetdowns are used often. Camera cranes and scissor lifts used to lift a camera and one or more operators high above the ground are also frequently requested.

1990, Michael Horwin, Careers in Film and Video Production, page 70:

That confidence will buy you a lot of good will when you ask them all for finishing funds because you blew your production budget on a Luma crane and a wetdown for Hollywood Boulevard.

2016, Dan Mirvish, The Cheerful Subversive's Guide to Independent Filmmaking, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 38:

(film) The application of water to objects and surfaces on a film set, for example when shooting a rainy scene during dry weather.

(firefighting) A traditional ceremony of spraying water over a new fire truck before it is placed into service.


twistout

A kind of knockout (partially punched opening) that can be removed by twisting.


countout

deverbal

count out#English:_determine that (a competitor) has lost a match

The awarding of a match to a wrestler after their opponent has been counted out (usually after ten seconds of being outside the ring) by the referee.


callover

(finance) The calling out of a list of securities on a stock exchange so that dealers can bid for them.


take-in

‘Ma'am,’ cried Mr Sheridan, turning to me abruptly, ‘you should send and order him not, – it is a take in, and ought to be forbid […].’

1779, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 108:


washup

(UK politics, slang) The period prior to dissolution of parliament, in which any remaining bills are quickly pushed through or else abandoned.


ski-through

Deverbal from ski through, modelled after drive-through.

[page 14] [T]wo resort owners in the Ely area were asked if they would be willing to join forces and attempt to get a trail constructed to connect the two businesses and jointly market a ski-thru program. […] [page 15] The end product of this activity was the construction of trail segments linking the existing cross-country ski trails with each other and with the two resorts. In addition to marketing cross-country skiing individually, the two resorts put together a ski-thru package and marketed it in cooperation with Amtrak.

1971, Staff Paper, St. Paul, Minn.: Institute of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 14 and 15:

Three lodges—Borderland, Gunflint Lodge, and Bearskin Lodge—have initiated a ski-thru program. Skiers can tour between lodges. Your gear is transported ahead to be there on arrival.

1982 November, Mitch Mode, “Update: Cross Country Midwest”, in Dick Needham, editor, Ski, volume 47, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Times Mirror Magazines, →ISSN, →OCLC, page CC17, columns 1–2:

There are four lodges on the Gunflint trail (County Road 12) that are owned by the originators of the first midwest ski-through program. Skiers start at one lodge, ski its trails, and then move out to the main artery trail and ski-through to the next lodge. Their luggage and car will be moved on ahead to the next participating lodge. This gives guests the opportunity to ski many more trails of the Gunflint community […]

1985, Elizabeth Noren, Gary Noren, Ski Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.: Nodin Press, →ISBN, page 115:

The lodge-to-lodge ski-thru program is a co-operative effort of several of the Gunflint Lodges where skiers can stay at different lodges each night and ski different trail systems.

1989, The Boundary Waters Journal: The Magazine of America’s Favorite Wilderness Area, Ely, Minn.: Boundary Waters Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:

A ski-through system by Entrelogic will be installed at four resorts this season.

2004, Ski Area Management, volume 43, North Salem, N.Y.: Beardsley Publishing Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 49:

(skiing) Of a ski lodge or other hotel establishment: providing skiers with the service of transporting their equipment, luggage, and vehicles to other establishments so they can ski directly to those establishments.


washaway

It was the giddy sight down the gullies below the twisting road which had been formed and re-formed from years of washaways, and now hung like fish gills, out over edges of the limestone substrata.

2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 145:

(chiefly Australia) The washing away of earth, a road, structure etc. by flood, or the channel caused by this.


ruboff

en-noun

ruboff (countable and uncountable, plural ruboffs)

For example, if there tend to be qualitative or other "ruboffs" between product advertisements that are presented in the same spot, marketers must be extremely careful as to when, where, and with what products their ads are being seen.

1974, Southern Marketing Association, Proceedings, page 168:

We saw good absorption and low ruboff.

1994, American Printer, volume 213, page 33:

They know that in the business world, doors open on doors through personal contact, mutual experiences and all the other ruboffs from white middle-class life style.

2000, Mary-Lou Weisman, Intensive Care: A Family Love Story, page 89:

[…] the researchers identified the notion of 'reputation impact', whereby creative employees were attracted to companies that were highly reputable and visible, because of the perceived reputation rub-off for the employees' personal identity […]

2010, Christine Daymon, Immy Holloway, Qualitative Research Methods in Public Relations and Marketing Communications:

The situation where something rubs off, either physically or figuratively.


hark-back

hark-backs (plural)
hark back (alternative)

(hunting) An act of hounds retracing a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey.


whiparound

(television) The technique of panning around a number of people on a panel, newsdesk, etc. by way of introduction.


liftup

One certainly can argue that not all low-speed streaks lead to liftup, although if the local Reynolds number exceeds the transition limit, it is certain that eventual transition will occur to the hairpin vortex liftup, which ultimately leads to the breakup state.

1995, William Lawrence Keith, Flow Noise Modeling, Measurement, and Control, page 45:

Each microturbulent event contributes to the wall shear stress; the low-speed streak contributes at the low end with the liftup less than the mean and the sweeps greater than the mean, so that the wall shear stress PDF can be construed as the weighted sum of the individual PDFs.

1998, Herman Branover, Yeshajahu Unger, Progress in fluid flow research: turbulence and applied MHD, →ISBN, page 418:

Near the wall, a Taylor series expansion around y = 0 gives for the liftup:

2012, S. Gavrilakis, L. Machiels, P.A. Monkewitz, Advances in Turbulence VI, →ISBN:

(physics) The force that causes an upward flow as part of turbulence.


punchdown

(telecommunications) A kind of electrical connection often used in telephony, having solid copper wires that are punched down into short open-ended slots which are a type of insulation-displacement connector. The slots contain blades which cut through the wire's insulation as it is punched down, and hold the wire in position while making electrical contact.


pourover

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(often attributive) A style of coffee prepared by manually pouring hot water over the ground beans, rather than using an automatic drip method.


kickout

In the great Michigan game of 1903, it was he who got the ball on the kickout.

1906, Graff F. Wolfe, The Story of Wall Ka-Zoo, page 112:

Jones caught the kickout on the fifteen-yard line and Hudson kicked goal.

1906, The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette, page 276:

Another change requires that on the kickout the opponents line up on the 20-yard line, instead of on the 25-yard line, and that the ball be kicked from some point behind the 20-yard line.

The kickout was fumbled and Barrett lost his chance to try for the goal.

1915, The Cornell Alumni News - Volume 18, page 97:

“We called [the play] 26 Blast on that play and I was reading Jaydon Wright’s kickout block on the end,” Smith said.

2021 April 4, Nicholas Holstein, “FOOTBALL: Youthful Irish gain confidence, experience in win over Chicago Christian”, in Daily Journal (Kankakee, Illinois):

(rugby, American football) A drop kick by a player on the side to return the ball back into play.


cut-in

(video games, by extension) A visual sequence focusing on a character's face or body while they perform a special move.

"My collaborators are having their convention in Cleveland this week," was the rueful joke among real songwriters who were seeing their royalties diluted by cut-ins.

2012, Gary Rosen, Unfair to Genius: The Strange and Litigious Career of Ira B. Arnstein, page 138:

One group was understandably upset by all the royalty cut-ins — the songwriters.

1994, Kerry Segrave, Payola in the Music Industry: A History, 1880-1991, page 21:

The situation where the performer of a musical work receives royalties for each performance, despite not having composed it.

An instance of pulling in front of another vehicle in traffic.


speed-up

King's Messenger, 1918-1940: Memoirs of a Silver Greyhound. By George P. Antrobus, O.B.E., King's Foreign Service Messenger 1918-1940. London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd. Price 10s. 6d. net. [...] "The great European express trains have an air of mystery and romance about them. Truth to tell, this is but ill-deserved. Except over the French portion of their journey they have no right to the title of express"—he was writing of conditions before the great speed-up of the last decade— [...].

1941 October, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 480:

By comparison with steam, no big acceleration of the expresses proved possible between Leeds and Manchester and the speed-ups that have been secured owe a great deal to the excision of intermediate stops.

1961 April, G. Freeman Allen, “The planning and execution of the new Leeds-Manchester service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 201:


try-on

All try-ons should be conducted before the lineup begins lo be sure the clothes or accessories fit properly. All participants should be dressed the same.

2009, Anne Harris, Alys Briggs, California Criminal Law Procedure and Practice, page 599:

The act, or a session, of trying on clothing.


swing-back

Designating a type of step ladder that hinges into an A shape, with steps on both sides but no platform at the top.


stickout

A portion of wire extending from an electrode, important in the welding process.


rollabout

In the C3000, these units are housed in three separate boxes that sit inside a rollabout cabinet supplied by PictureTel.

1991, Network World, volume 8, number 4, page 50:

Fitted with wheels allowing it to be transported from place to place.


fill-out

All moves use the same form, but the fill-outs are different.

1955, George Worthington, Factory - Volume 113, page 226:

This layer is primarily responsible for automatically locating and extracting dynamic data from Web sites, i.e^([sic]) data that can only be obtained by form fill-outs.

2000, Hasan Davulcu, Guizhen Yang, Michael Kifer, I. V. Ramakrishnan, “Design and Implementation of the Physical Layer in WebBases: The XRover Experience”, in John Lloyd, Veronica Dahl, Ulrich Furbach, Manfred Kerber, Kung-Kiu Lau, Catuscia Palamidessi, Luís Moniz Pereira, Yehoshua Sagiv, Peter J. Stuckey, editors, Computational Logic – CL 2000, page 1094:

An option provided as one of a number of possible answers to a question in a form.

They served the industries located along the tracks, performed such freight-house switching as became necessary, set cars off or put cars on passenger trains when necessary, lined up fill-outs for through-freight trains, made up the locals originating at Idaho Falls, and set cars off and put cars on the through freight trains 277 and 278.

1936, Awards First Division, National Railroad Adjustment Board:

When sufficient quantities of these types of freight are not available, cars containing ordinary freight are added as "tonnage fill-outs" to bring the train up to the required minimum tonnage.

1937, The Traffic World - Volume 59, page 143:

Close cooperation between yard masters and inspection forces at major terminals can also make it possible to service journal boxes on fill-outs before they are incorporated in road trains.

1952, Car Foremen's Association of Chicago, Proceedings - Volumes 53-54, page 38:

An extra car added to a freight train in order to achieve a minimum tonnage.

All fill-outs should be packed with \p's so nothing will be printed.

1955, Report - David W. Taylor Model Basin - Issue 916, page 195:

She's the main deal, we're just the fill-outs!

1958, Brainard Cheney, This is Adam: a novel, page 42:

At the other extreme, were those who bought conservatively for their own manufacturing needs and retail sails. They picked up spot fill-outs when they ran short.

1964, Ag Chem & Commercial Fertilizer - Volume 19, page 64:

One seldom hears a text sung in which 50 per cent of the lines are not mere fill-outs — either, on the mechanical level, excuses for rhymes or scansion or, on a more justifiable level, additions of emotional weight by mere reiteration of intellectual points already made.

As is typical for the period, his left-hand notation includes a mixture of continuo bass lines and standard fill-outs such as Alberti basses.

2010, Tilman Skowroneck, Beethoven the Pianist, page 182:

Something extra that is added to increase the size of something.

Тheoretical amplitudes of primary minima Аmₛ (transits) versus the mass-ratio for different inclinations and fill-outs.

1972, Acta Astronomica - Volumes 22-23, page 108:

The stars TZ Boo and Y Sex do not have their fill-outs well determined.

(astronomy) The amount by which a star in a binary system extends beyond its Roche lobe.


leanback

I was placed in a saddle and a leanback was made; a bent twig or sapling inclined at an angle of 50° was attached to the rings at the crupper of the saddle, and I was securely attached to it by a rope.

1867, United States. Surgeon-General's Office, Circular, page 14:

On the each end was a leanback made of willow rods tied together in a tapered trapezoidal form set at an angle. Covers of buffalo hide with the hair on and quillwork designs were draped over the leanback and bed surface.

2013, Jeffrey D. Anderson, Arapaho Women's Quillwork: Motion, Life, and Creativity, page 61:

Sleeping rolls or mattresses of animal skins were arranged around the circular edges near the buckskin walls, and there were buffalo hide seats called leanbacks randomly placed near the fire pit.

2014, M. B. Tosi, The Thundering Path of Spirit, page 10:

A seat back formed by a frame made of flexible twigs and covered by a hide or blanket.


come-off

An outcome or conclusion; the way that a situation turns out.


stagger-through

Deverbal from stagger through, modeled after readthrough and walkthrough. So called because there may be notional staggers (mistakes, pauses for discussion, etc.).

And so I went there with the rehearsal pianists and we just did stagger-throughs, so that we could time it, so that we could know what was going on.

1998, Opera, volume 49, numbers 7-10, page 1036:

There may be a “stagger-through” in between, a run-through with occasional stops for critical discussions and changes.

2016, Don Harmon, Producing in Theater, page 45:

(music, television) The rehearsal of an entire show.


tack-up

Tack-ups serve for windows of miscellaneous shops, proprietors of these places being rewarded for their indulgence […]

1916, Arthur Edwin Krows, Play Production in America, page 324:

They monogram napkins for department and specialty stores, print millions of cards and gift wrappings, design a wide variety of invitations, dance programs, decals and tack-ups.


billback

billback (countable and uncountable, plural billbacks)

Take greater advantage of opportunities to recover costs through billback agreements, which allow the Government to make warrantied repairs and obtain reimbursement from the manufacturer when it is impracticable to return trucks to an authorized dealer.

1974, Annual Report of the General Accounting Office, United States: General Accounting Office, page 112:

Please explain the procedure you have established to determine which headquarters activities will be funded through billbacks to the district offices.

1993, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 1994:

(accounting) The process of charging the client for a portion of the cost of resources that the client has used in order to recover the capital expense.


greyout

greyouts (plural)
grayout (alternative)
grey-out (alternative)
grey out (alternative)

A transient loss of vision caused by hypoxia and characterized by a perceived dimming of light and color, sometimes accompanied by a loss of peripheral vision.


dress-out

On the day of the patient's discharge, the patient will be called to 1 of the 2 dress-out rooms. The patient will be dressed out and then will be escorted to the agent cashier's office where he will pick up the money he had had on account, the valuables he has had in safekeeping, and last, but not least, his ticket and transportation to his home.

1956, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, Traffic In, and Control Of, Narcotics, Barbiturates, and Amphetamines:

Proper Dress-out.
1. Radiological emergency response team members dressed-out in waterproof gowns and other standard surgical attire.
2. Cuffs and inner gloves are taped for contamination control purposes.

1984, Robert C. Ricks, Hospital Emergency Department Management of Radiation Accidents:

One crew was initially assigned to the emergency operations center, the second to the emergency response team's (ERT's) dress-out area, […]

2007, Philip Jan Rothstein, Disaster Recovery Testing: Exercising Your Contingency Plan:

(medicine) The process of medical staff or patients dressing and equipping themselves in preparation for leaving the hospital.


drop-by

About all George had scheduled during these long hours were a few delegation drop-bys, a duty he shared with other party luminaries, to motivate the troops for the fall campaign.

2008, James A. Baker, Steve Fiffer, "Work Hard, Study . . . and Keep Out of Politics!", page 103:

[…] might be off to talk at a West Point graduation, return to Washington to speak to an assemblage of liberal city mayors, and conclude by making a few remarks to members of a political action committee that has been scheduled as a "drop-by."

Bush managed well, what with Wednesday morning breakfasts and occasional drop-bys at their offices. These private meetings were where differences were aired and settlements started to be fashioned.

2013, Alan Rosenthal, The Best Job in Politics:

A brief visit, especially (politics) for the purpose of attracting voters or motivating one's staff.


comeout

(gambling) The initial roll of the dice in craps.


runthrough

You've had the first runthrough of a complicated, multifaceted musical production and it's hanging together.

There are generally three to five runthroughs at which the director feels his company is ready to be criticized by "outsiders." A large or small audience of friends may be invited to the last two of the runthroughs.

1994, Harold Clurman, Marjorie Loggia, Glenn Young, The Collected Works of Harold Clurman, page 439:

Emerging in the feedback phase of a larger conference presentation rehearsal activity, this general kind of negative observation is a linguistic resource deployed by Ron, the principal research investigator, to communicate what he considers to have been relevant omissions in the presentation runthrough.

2002, Cecilia E. Ford, Barbara A. Fox, Sandra A. Thompson, The Language of Turn and Sequence, page 148:


runthrough

Much of D. & H. joint service is conducted by runthrough train operations, which eliminate terminal delay.

1973, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, Northeastern Railroad Transportation Crisis, page 932:

One of the advantages of Conrail certainly is in runthrough trains.

1976, American Association of Railroad Superintendents, Proceedings and Committee Reports of Annual Meeting, page 26:


walkback

AdaRAID supports multiple CPUs running concurrently, Ada data types, features include break points, watchpoints, timing, tracing, stepping, walkbacks, and histories of last n executions.

Walkbacks, inspectors, and debuggers are the heart of Smalltalk's debugging facilities. Walkbacks are displayed when Smalltalk detects an error or a breakpoint. The debugger offers many tools for detecting and correcting code errors.


pushalong

A child's wheeled toy that can be pushed along the floor.


try-out

By the first day of try-outs, the sheets were completely filled with students' names.

2004, Peggy Roberts, Daily Skill Builders: Reading 5-6:

The setting was the youth league baseball try-outs in the small town of Boland, New Hampshire. Also in attendance at the try-outs was John Harding, a hometown hero who, together with his wife, Sally, and their soon-to-be 8-year-old son, Rick, had only recently returned to Boland to settle down and begin John's tenure as the President and CEO of Millennium International, one of the largest computer companies in the country.

The next thing I was invited to a try-out in South Bend, Indiana.

2015, Merrie A. Fidler, The Origins and History of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, page 107:


lockaway

For the investor, the indications are that the shares of soundly managed important airframe makers are the best current aircraft industry buys for long term lockaways.

He thinks investment trusts should be viewed as long-term lockaways, which can be held almost indefinitely, so he steers clear of more aggressively managed trusts.

1997, Investors Chronicle, volume 122, numbers 1548-1558, page 62:

(finance) A long-term investment to be left alone until some future time.


fitting-out

The first sets for this testing will move straight from the factory, while those at Worksop will return to Derby for internal fitting-out before being dispatched to Wolverton.

2020 July 1, “ORR authorises GA Class 720/5s to carry passengers”, in Rail, page 12:

The process of installing fittings, furnishings etc. in the interior of something.


slow-down

SR Operations Director David Simpson told RAIL that owing to social distancing and a slow-down in the supply chain, the '153s' had been delayed because the 'build phase' had not progressed as quickly as hoped.

2020 July 1, Richard Clinnick, “Network News: ScotRail's 'active travel' '153s' set for August arrival”, in Rail, page 24:


farmout

It also operates as a check on fraud, and, without impugning the integrity of the people involved in oil and gas lease farmouts, the potential for fraud inherent in H.R. 3152 does give me great pause.

The act of subcontracting or outsourcing.


mail-in

In the critical swing states of Ohio and Florida, more than a fifth of voters chose the mail-in option 2010.

2012 November 4, “Mail-in ballots: the hanging chads of 2012?”, in Reuters:

mail-in ballots


mail-in

I chose to do a mail-in instead of going to vote in person.


runahead

(computing) The speculative execution of code that may or may not be required to execute, so that the results are available in advance if that branch is in fact subsequently taken.


let-out

“I just want you to know that this whole Missteps thing has nothing to do with me or any of my staff.” A let-out of breath. “I don't know who it is, but it sounds like that letter to the editor from back when you were playing? […]”

2014, Timothy Lane, Rules for Becoming a Legend, New York, NY: Penguin Books, published 2015, →ISBN, page unknown:

The act or an instance of releasing or letting out something.


hive-off

(business) Synonym of spin-off (“(formation of) subsidiary company”).


top-out

(climbing) The act of topping out, reaching the top of a route.


reachback

(military) The ability to exploit resources and capabilities located elsewhere.


cut-down

This is a cut-down version of the software package; it doesn't include all the features.


burn-out

in the parking lot doing burn-outs


watchout

A change in wind direction is a watchout.

Being uninformed on firefighting strategy and tactics is a watchout.

(firefighting) Any potentially hazardous condition or situation that may make a fire more dangerous.


slipout

The collapse and sliding away of part of a road etc.


putoff

I think I would have asked farther, but Alan gave me the put-off. “I am rather wearied,” he said, “and I would like fine to get a sleep.”

1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:


rolloff

rolloff dumpster

(of a dumpster) Able to be be rolled off (and later, rolled back onto) the bed of a flatbed truck (flatbed lorry) in a motorized way, using a winch and cable.


phase-out

Nissan has elected to concentrate its European operations in Sunderland, including battery development, precisely because Boris Johnson has brought forward the phase-out date for petrol and diesel vehicles to 2030. This means that Nissan will be selling into one of the best markets in the world for electric vehicles.

2021 January 25, Chris Barker, Dr Robin Russell-Jones, “Electric cars are not the only green solution”, in The Guardian:

During the exchange, he also said: “Show me the roadmap for a phase-out of fossil fuel that will allow for sustainable socioeconomic development, unless you want to take the world back into caves.”

2023 December 4, Damian Carrington, quoting Al Jaber, “Cop28 president forced into defence of fossil fuel phase-out claims”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Some countries are despairing that the text does not require a full phase-out of fossil fuels.

2023 December 11, Fiona Harvey, Patrick Greenfield, Nina Lakhani, Adam Morton, Damian Carrington, “Cop28 draft climate deal criticised as ‘grossly insufficient’ and ‘incoherent’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:


stayout

A form of boycott in which people refuse to attend their usual workplace or school.


tear-off

a tear-off strip, a tear-off protector

Designed to be removed by tearing or pulling off.


sign-up

The act of signing up, as for a commercial service or a committee.


hand-out

(racquets, real tennis, squash) A player to whom a ball is served.


getback

getback (countable and uncountable, plural getbacks)

If the resource was general and valuable, elements of criminality and vengeful getbacks — 'I'll burn your crops' — were an ever-present threat.

2013, Brent D. Shaw, Bringing in the Sheaves: Economy and Metaphor in the Roman World, page 248:

I ran from my parents' mistakes and the dark cloud that loomed over me from their petty games of getback.


selloff

In a falldown, price often shows short-term support at a lower price band before the final selloff.

2011, Elaine Knuth, Trading Between the Lines, page 173:


flowoff

flowoff (countable and uncountable, plural flowoffs)


weedout

weedout (countable and uncountable, plural weedouts)

a weedout class

a weedout course

(education, informal, attributive) A class that is difficult or requires great effort, and thus may cause less able or less dedicated students to withdraw.


turnaway

The night show then pulled a turnaway and the extra night show drew near-capacity.

If only one person at a time is permitted to use an e-book (SUPO option), then users will experience "turnaways" when they try to access a title already in use. […] Presenting an option to email the library can provide a means to gather feedback from your users each time they experience a turnaway. Ask your vendor what options are available to ameliorate turnaways if that is a concern for your library.

2015, Theresa S. Arndt, Getting Started with Demand-Driven Acquisitions for E-books:

(often attributive) The situation where a potential customer is turned away because their needs cannot be accommodated.


true-up

Use this code for any accounting adjustments or "true-ups" for service provided in prior reporting years.

2013, Federal Register, volume 78, number 146, page 46228:

An adjustment to make something equal or correct.


rub-off

rub-off (countable and uncountable, plural rub-offs)


shoutdown

2022, Greg Lukianoff, "The Eternally Radical Idea", Honestly with Bari Weiss at 27m31s:

He comes to speak at Brown and he is shouted down so completely, that nobody can hear him and they just call the whole thing off. Now, shoutdowns were not completely unheard of for most of my career...

An event when someone shouts down (shouts louder than) someone in order to force through an argument or point of view.


set-in

(sewing) Made separately and inset into a garment.


washoff

washoff (countable and uncountable, plural washoffs)

washoffs (plural)
wash-off (alternative)

After application, herbicides persist in the soil until they are degraded to less harmful compounds or are removed from the soil by washoff or leaching.

1976, Anthony S. Donigian (Jr.), Norman H. Crawford, Modeling Pesticides and Nutrients on Agricultural Lands (page 41)

The process of material being washed off a surface, for example by rainfall.


drydown

drydown (countable and uncountable, plural drydowns)

drydowns (plural)
dry-down (alternative)

From dry + down and deverbal from dry down.

In those days I didn't buy perfumes, and initially thought Chamade was two fragrances: I would smell the drydown on passers-by and find it wonderful, but it took me months to connect it to the nondescript floral green top note.

2010, Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez, “Chamade”, in Perfumes: The A–Z Guide, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 115:

(perfumery) The phase of a perfume where the top note gives way to the base note.

(agriculture) The physiologically mature phase in the ripening of a crop, where the fruit attains the desired trait of desiccation, suiting it for harvest and storage (e.g. maize, soybean).


dimout

A (scheduled or accidental) general reduction in electrical power, like a blackout but less severe.


bringback

en-adj

bringback (comparative more bringback, superlative most bringback)

more bringback (comparative)
most bringback (superlative)

(military, aviation) Pertaining to return payload weight for aircraft from aircraft carriers.


cling-on

Window cling-ons are the same kind you see at Christmas time, with cute Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeers and Frosty the Snow Mans on them.

2003, Tiffany Lambert, Restaurant Promotion and Publicity: For Just a Few Dollars a Day, Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc., →ISBN, page 98:

Su Mundo Latino aims to answer that question by providing booksellers with a merchandising kit that includes banners, shelf talkers, and window cling-ons.

2003 April 19, Leila Cobo, “Joint Venture Broadens Christian ‘World’”, in Billboard, page 21, column 3:

Window cling-ons don’t require tape and are easy to remove.

2011, Robyn Hart, Judy Rollins, Therapeutic Activities for Children and Teens Coping with Health Issues, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 230:

Synonym of cling (“type of window ornament”).


stretch-out

stretch-outs (plural)
stretchout (alternative)

As time progressed, the Gray Line increased its limo fleet, converted the stretchouts into passenger vehicles (later widely emulated), and brought the first sightseeing buses to the Islands.

2004, Robert C. Allen, Creating Hawai'i Tourism: A Memoir, page 118:


jumping-off point

en-noun

jumping-off point (plural jumping-off points)

Includes a deverbal component from jump off.

Not far south of Keelung is the small inland town of Juifang, the jumping-off point for one of northern Taiwan’s most picturesque getaways.

2003, Vivien Kim, editor, Taiwan (Insight Guides), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 171:

St Davids is also the jumping-off point for the Tarka Line to Barnstaple, and to Exmouth as well as to Waterloo, all of which makes the station a busy location.

2024 September 18, David Clough, “Riding the route of the 'Riviera Express'”, in RAIL, number 1018, page 39:

A starting point for a mission, adventure, investigation etc.


pay-for

The government is debating whether to include various pay-fors in order to fund the new infrastructure bill.

The bill is instead paid for by a jumble of pay-fors, including $40 billion from the Federal Reserve surplus account, which acts as a cushion to help the Fed take potential losses.

2015 December 1, Jason Plautz, “After Years of Waiting, Congress Finally Has Its Long-Term Transportation Bill”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-01:

Why is it, she [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] retorts, that these questions arise only in connection with useful ideas, not wasteful ideas? Where were the 'pay-fors' for [George] Bush's $5 trillion wars and tax cuts, or for last year's $2 trillion tax giveaway to billionaires?

2019 January 16, Robert Hockett, “The Green New Deal: How We Will Pay For It Isn't 'A Thing' - And Inflation Isn't Either”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-06:

With the passage of a deficit-financed $1.9 trillion relief bill just hours away, Democrats in Congress may soon pivot to new agenda items, including President Biden's Build Back Better plan for infrastructure and other critical investments. And those lawmakers will inevitably face intense pressure from fiscal moderates to include tax "pay fors" in spending legislation.

2021 March 10, Chye-Ching Huang, “How Biden Funds His Next Bill: Shrink the $7.5 Trillion Tax Gap”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-16:

"Other industries were probably better prepared to fend off being a pay-for," said Ed Mills, Washington policy analyst at Raymond James. "This is the first time they've really been on the menu."

2021 August 9, Victoria Guida, “Washington wakes up to crypto influence amid infrastructure fight”, in Politico, archived from the original on 2022-12-09:

(US, politics) Something which is used to pay for a bill, such as an increase in taxes.


drainout

The valves are removable from the surface without excavating the hydrants, and are provided with automatic drainouts with brass nipple, set below frost line, and are surrounded with a broken stone blind drain.

1911, Engineering Review, volume 21, page 28:

A channel for the purpose of draining liquid out of a system.


pass-through

pass-through (countable and uncountable, plural pass-throughs)


tapeout

(electronics) The point at which the design of an integrated circuit is completed and the photomask is sent out for fabrication.


brushout

Brushouts of the standard paint and the sample paint shall be prepared as described in Paragraph (c) […]

1955, American Society for Testing Materials. Committee D-1 on Paint, Varnish, Lacquer, and Related Products, A.S.T.M. Standards on Paints, Varnish, Lacquer, and Related Products (page 542)

The application of paint or varnish to a surface to test the properties of the paint or varnish.


step-off

[…] is not an issue of choice," National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) head Urvashi Vaid told more than 750,000 gathered at the rally's conclusion. "It is an issue of power." Earlier, at a step-off assembly behind the White House on the Ellipse, Human Rights Campaign Fund (HRCF) director Tim McFeeley thanked feminists for […]

1992 May 8, John Zeh, Gay Community News, page 3:

The Cedar Valley High School Marching Band–The Crimson Regiment–will be holding a Step-off meeting TOMORROW Tuesday March 12 at 7:30 pm in the auditorium at Frontier Middle School. We will be measuring for uniforms in the Band Room beginning at 6:30 pm and finishing up any we miss after the 7:30 meeting.

2019 March 11, Charlotte Ducas, “Crimson Regiment Step-Off TOMORROW NIGHT, March 12, 2019”, in Cedar Valley Aviators, archived from the original on 2023-11-21:

A preparatory gathering before a larger main event.


mop-up

We need a mop-up on aisle 3. [store intercom announcement]

Another armored division was called in for the mop-up operation.

(informal, often attributive) An instance of mopping up; a cleaning or finishing off.


wash-off

wash-off marker


pull-through

A length of cord about a metre long with a narrow cylindrical weight at one end and loops at the other. Used for cleaning rifle barrels, by pulling through a piece of cloth.


fold-up

fold-up table

Able to be folded up; especially, easy to fold up.


fold-up

A piece of furniture that is easily folded up for storage or transport.


twist-off

(of a closure for a container, especially a bottlecap) That is (intended to be) removed by twisting and pulling off by hand, without need of a bottle opener.


sign-in

Enter your credentials on the sign-in screen.

Make sure to verify your contact info immediately after sign-in.

Microsoft provides a way to check for all sign-ins by your account: go to "My Sign-ins".

(often attributive) The process or an instance of signing in.


lock-on

A technique used by protesters to make it difficult to remove them from their place of protest, involving a human chain with linked arms, or sometimes the use of special hardware.


drawover

Drawovers, such as the one shown here, were instrumental in refining those details.

2016, Sanjay Patel, The Art of Sanjay's Super Team, page 48:

Below are some of my notes and drawovers, pushing the HOC artists to make small adjustments like increasing the size of his hands and making his undershirt more tattered. Tiny notes like this really add a lot to the visual impact of the character.

2023, Mattel, Stuart Bam, The Art of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, page 12:

Proposed changes that are sketched over the top of an existing drawing.


bogdown

In their natural jitters as the release of the "balloon" came closer and closer, correspondents and broadcasters had feared technical and administrative bogdowns. which were not exactly rare in military campaigns.

1966, Eugene Lyons, David Sarnoff: A Biography, New York, N.Y.: Pyramid Books, published 1967, page 299:

But listen to Jimi's brilliant, scorched-earth solo, recorded on the last day of 1969, after Woodstock, after the bogdown in Vietnam, after the riots of 1967, after the assassinations of 1968.

2008, Mark Fogarty, Went to See the Gypsy: An Amazing Journey to the Heart of Rock and Roll, →ISBN, page 213:

(informal, rare) A situation in which something becomes stuck or bogged down.


screwdown

A plastic case, fastened with screws, for storing and displaying a trading card.


tearout

tearout (countable and uncountable, plural tearouts)

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface, uncountable) A feature allowing a tab or other entity to be dragged out of a window and to create its own new window.


chowdown

That Bereket […] draws couples, families and working men from Turkey and other areas of the Middle East and Southeast Europe tells you there is more to this fast-food place than wee-hours chowdowns.

2003, Daniel Young, The Rough Guide to New York City Restaurants, page 114:

(informal) A session of vigorous eating.


throwover

Synonym of throw (“piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing”).


dragback

(soccer) The act of drawing the ball backward with one's sole.


stock-up

stock-ups (plural)
stockup (alternative)

Come to our stock-up sale and save big!

Do you have a stock-up price? [for bulk discount]

A stock-up is a good idea, in case of supply chain disruptions.

(often attributive) The act or an instance of stocking up.


changearound

The changing or switching of things with each other.


read-in

Deverbal from read in or read + -in; modelled on lie-in and sit-in.

(US, historical) A protest in which demonstrators gather in or occupy a segregated library in order to read.


conkout

Black tracks on the magneto, a hairline crack in the flywheel casing, pitted points or a spitless exhaust — all are clues to potential conkouts

1965, Popular Mechanics, volume 123, number 3, page 140:


scrubout

(military, Antarctica) A session of cleaning.


flipout

the flip-out screen of a camcorder

That can be flipped into an extended or open position.


show-up

Deverbal from show up. (showing of a suspect): Compare lineup.

At Eton College, a reward for good schoolwork (which is shown to one's housemaster and tutor and signed).


blowover

The situation where a vehicle or vessel overturns because of excessive air under the chassis or hull.


flipover

(television) A screen wipe effect resembling the turning of the page of a book.


tickover

tickover (usually uncountable, plural tickovers)

(automotive) The idle rate of an engine, particularly on a motorbike.

(biochemistry) The minimal turn-over rate of a chemical without additional stimulation.


size-up

(firefighting) The initial evaluation of an incident and how to deal with it.


sell-up

The act or process of selling one's property or business, typically because of debts or financial considerations.


standfast

Surely there was a conscious weakness in the Spartans, who were always at pains to discipline their men in heroical conduct, and rewarded none save the standfasts.

One who stands firm, resisting assault or pressure.


freak-off

freak-offs (plural)
freak off (alternative)

Throughout her testimony, which is in its third day, Jane has alleged that during their relationship she felt obligated and pressured to participate in the drug-fueled sex parties with hired male escorts – known as “hotel nights” or “freak-offs” – that she said Combs would request, direct, watch and masturbate to, and would sometimes film.

2025 June 9, Anna Betts, “Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s ex-girlfriend says she felt obligated to participate in ‘freak-offs’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(slang) A bout of wild or unorthodox sexual activity.


passaround

(derogatory, slang, chiefly in compounds specifying a context) A sexually promiscuous person.