all-hang-out en · ADJ
Etymology
From the phrase let it all hang out.
Meanings
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(attributive) unrestrained in narration, often to an indecorous extent.
Although The Human Voice parody in Law of Desire was a funny conceit, all out of control and frantic nervousness, Women on the Verge shows Almodóvar to be in tight form, the laughs emerging from a skilled manipulation of the farce structure rather than all-hang-out anarchism of Matador or Law of Desire.
1988 December 25, Michael Bronski, “Passion Statement”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 24, page 8:[…] the "all-hang-out" school of contemporary biography to which Morgan's book belongs
1991, Daniel Mornin, All Our Fault: A Novel, Random House (UK), →ISBN: