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chalk out en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To draw or write down (something) using chalk.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) to make (plans); to sketch (something); to describe (a plan).
    • I shall pursue the plan I have chalked out. 1795–1797, Edmund Burke, “(please specify |letter=1 to 4)”, in [Letters on a Regicide Peace], London: [Rivington]:
  3. (US, intransitive) In a multi-race wager, to lose to the favorite in all of the remaining races.
    • A 25-1 shot won race 3, but the rest of the early pick 5 chalked out after that.
  4. (US, intransitive, slang) To die.
  5. (US, slang, transitive) To kill (someone).

Forms

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chalks out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
chalking out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
chalked out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
chalked out Tense=Past lexicographic