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age out en · VERB

Etymology

Use of the phrasal verb, with adverb out, is analogous to run out. The phrase was likely spread by the Boy Scouts of America, where it is used largely in sense 1 to refer to turning eighteen and becoming ineligible for the youth program.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To become too old for an activity, program or institution; to become too mature for a behavior.
   • I am aging out of queenship indeed, when even the beggars refuse my bidding. 1925, Robinson Jeffers, “THE TOWER BEYOND TRAGEDY; II”, in Roan Stallion, Tamar and Other Poems, New York: Horace Liveright, page 62:
   • When foster kids age out of the system, it is important for the state to provide them with support.
   • But they [movie stars] do seem to be aging out. There's Leonardo DiCaprio at 46, Johnson, at 48 years old, and Brad Pitt, at 57; Tom Cruise, at 58. 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2022:
2. (euphemistic, intransitive) To die or retire.
   • The party's chances in the coming election looked grim as a large portion of their voters were going to age out.

Forms

Relateds

obsolesce · over the hill

Translations (1)

hu kiöregedik (to become too old for an activity, program or institution)

wikipedia: Boy Scouts of America