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• out rider

  [Brit. motorcycle escort for dignitaries (Pye p.c.)] n. motorcycle policeman: In the Bahamas Police Force there are now women outriders.
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• out out

  v. 1. [E Car. (CoLlymore 83, Yansen 40); cf. OUT v. 1. + out particle] to extinguish: Out out the light
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• out-islander

   [cf. OUT ISLAND ] n. a native of any island of the Bahamas except New Providence: 1888 She lives in
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• out island

  [OED, applied esp. to the Shetlands, Orkneys, Hebrides, and other smaller islands at a distance from the mainland of Britain;
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• outen

  prep. [also Scots CSD, US dial. South WSCII out of: 1895 'E taken out 'is han'ke'chief outen 'is pocket (Edwards
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• outdoors

   [OED in the open air] adv, outside the home, as in an office: If a woman thinks she is capable
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• out

  v 1. [Car.; OED idem obs. →1621; aiso dial. in Brit. EDD, US South ADD] to put out (a light,
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• Our Father Prays (Praise, Prayer)

  [from the first line of the prayer, "Our Father, who art in heaven"; cf.PRAYS,PRAISE prayer, and note that dialect speakers can
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• oughta coulda

   [from ought to + could have) v, phr. ought to have been able (permitted sequence). (Eleu.)
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• otherwise

   [cf. OED no other wise 1597 (standard US usage does not permit no, any, etc. before otherwise); cf. also "Otherwise
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