See let it all hang out in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "lets it all hang out",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "letting it all hang out",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "let it all hang out",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "let it all hang out",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "<,,let>",
"head": "~hang out:~"
},
"expansion": "let it all hang out (third-person singular simple present lets it all hang out, present participle letting it all hang out, simple past and past participle let it all hang out)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "July 29, 2015, Paul Farhi, Article: Wait wait - can you say that on air? There's a debate on cursing at NPR. Washington Post",
"text": "Or more specifically, to bleep only part of a potentially offensive word in a broadcast-news story or to let it all hang out?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "April 21, 2014, Julia Turner, Article: Mad Men Episode 2 review: Don and Sally's talk at the diner. Slate",
"text": "For years now, Mad Men has tracked a tamped-down, repressed ’50s America becoming one where people let it all hang out.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Be utterly unrestrained and uninhibited.",
"Behave without shyness, timidity, or worry about the reactions of other people; being perfectly candid and without concealment of one's feelings or intentions in expressing oneself or revealing one's emotions."
],
"id": "en-let_it_all_hang_out-en-verb-CLs118~K",
"links": [
[
"utterly",
"utterly"
],
[
"unrestrained",
"unrestrained"
],
[
"uninhibited",
"uninhibited"
],
[
"shyness",
"shyness"
],
[
"timidity",
"timidity"
],
[
"worry",
"worry"
],
[
"candid",
"candid"
],
[
"concealment",
"concealment"
],
[
"revealing",
"revealing"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) Be utterly unrestrained and uninhibited.",
"(idiomatic) Behave without shyness, timidity, or worry about the reactions of other people; being perfectly candid and without concealment of one's feelings or intentions in expressing oneself or revealing one's emotions."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "let one's hair down"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "42 58",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 61",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 60",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "37 63",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "37 63",
"word": "all-hang-out"
},
{
"_dis1": "37 63",
"word": "limited hangout"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Near-synonyms: go the extra mile, give 110%"
},
{
"ref": "1962, Jim Brosnan, Pennant Race chapter 2.page 88",
"text": "\"Hope he has a couple of easy innings,\" said Turner. \"Sit down and cool off, young man.\" \"Let it all hang out now, Tits,\" said Whisenant \"don't hold back out there.\"",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Be utterly unrestrained and uninhibited.",
"Make the utmost effort at some endeavor, utilizing all of one's ability and resources, keeping nothing in reserve."
],
"id": "en-let_it_all_hang_out-en-verb-ZCgWPJ2v",
"links": [
[
"utterly",
"utterly"
],
[
"unrestrained",
"unrestrained"
],
[
"uninhibited",
"uninhibited"
],
[
"utmost",
"utmost"
],
[
"endeavor",
"endeavor"
],
[
"resources",
"resources"
],
[
"reserve",
"reserve"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) Be utterly unrestrained and uninhibited.",
"(idiomatic) Make the utmost effort at some endeavor, utilizing all of one's ability and resources, keeping nothing in reserve."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "give one's all"
},
{
"word": "go all out"
},
{
"word": "go big or go home"
},
{
"word": "pull out all the stops"
},
{
"word": "put one's heart and soul into it"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"word": "let it all hang out"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "all-hang-out"
},
{
"word": "limited hangout"
}
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "lets it all hang out",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "letting it all hang out",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "let it all hang out",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "let it all hang out",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "<,,let>",
"head": "~hang out:~"
},
"expansion": "let it all hang out (third-person singular simple present lets it all hang out, present participle letting it all hang out, simple past and past participle let it all hang out)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English idioms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "July 29, 2015, Paul Farhi, Article: Wait wait - can you say that on air? There's a debate on cursing at NPR. Washington Post",
"text": "Or more specifically, to bleep only part of a potentially offensive word in a broadcast-news story or to let it all hang out?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "April 21, 2014, Julia Turner, Article: Mad Men Episode 2 review: Don and Sally's talk at the diner. Slate",
"text": "For years now, Mad Men has tracked a tamped-down, repressed ’50s America becoming one where people let it all hang out.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Be utterly unrestrained and uninhibited.",
"Behave without shyness, timidity, or worry about the reactions of other people; being perfectly candid and without concealment of one's feelings or intentions in expressing oneself or revealing one's emotions."
],
"links": [
[
"utterly",
"utterly"
],
[
"unrestrained",
"unrestrained"
],
[
"uninhibited",
"uninhibited"
],
[
"shyness",
"shyness"
],
[
"timidity",
"timidity"
],
[
"worry",
"worry"
],
[
"candid",
"candid"
],
[
"concealment",
"concealment"
],
[
"revealing",
"revealing"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) Be utterly unrestrained and uninhibited.",
"(idiomatic) Behave without shyness, timidity, or worry about the reactions of other people; being perfectly candid and without concealment of one's feelings or intentions in expressing oneself or revealing one's emotions."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "let one's hair down"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English idioms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Near-synonyms: go the extra mile, give 110%"
},
{
"ref": "1962, Jim Brosnan, Pennant Race chapter 2.page 88",
"text": "\"Hope he has a couple of easy innings,\" said Turner. \"Sit down and cool off, young man.\" \"Let it all hang out now, Tits,\" said Whisenant \"don't hold back out there.\"",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Be utterly unrestrained and uninhibited.",
"Make the utmost effort at some endeavor, utilizing all of one's ability and resources, keeping nothing in reserve."
],
"links": [
[
"utterly",
"utterly"
],
[
"unrestrained",
"unrestrained"
],
[
"uninhibited",
"uninhibited"
],
[
"utmost",
"utmost"
],
[
"endeavor",
"endeavor"
],
[
"resources",
"resources"
],
[
"reserve",
"reserve"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) Be utterly unrestrained and uninhibited.",
"(idiomatic) Make the utmost effort at some endeavor, utilizing all of one's ability and resources, keeping nothing in reserve."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "give one's all"
},
{
"word": "go all out"
},
{
"word": "go big or go home"
},
{
"word": "pull out all the stops"
},
{
"word": "put one's heart and soul into it"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"word": "let it all hang out"
}
Download raw JSONL data for let it all hang out meaning in English (3.6kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.