out

adverb, preposition (SPORT)

/aʊt/

Definition

› (of a ball in a sport such as tennis) landing outside one of the lines that mark the area where the game is played: He thought the ball had bounced on the line, but the umpire said it was out.From, out and outsideTennis and racket sports

(Definition of out adverbpreposition (SPORT) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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