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hear me out en · NOUN

(Internet) A positive opinion, favorite, or crush that could be considered controversial or embarrassing.
- straight men’s worst hear me outs are sarah silverman ¶ ¶ straight women are like bilbo baggins when he’s scary 2023 April 19, @alex_abads, Twitter:
- Your “Hear me outs” are lame! This is a hear me out. DF give me these shit boxes!!! 2024 April 30, Atomik141, Reddit:
- “You are a coward wearing the facade of a revolutionary” ¶ ¶ -some random TikToker about people’s “hear me outs” not being freaky enough 2024 May 17, @TheLastEdoka, Twitter:

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hear me outs	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hear out.
- "I'm serious. Look, I know you don't want to admit you like the guy." She was like a dog with a bone. I shook my head at her. "Hear me out. We go in, we say hi to Cody. When Lucas shows up, we've got a perfect excuse for being here." 2019, Laura Heffernan, She's Got Game, page 41:
- "Be quiet, I tell you," said his inexorable patron, "and hear me out. We will take him at unawares, so that he shall neither have time to use cutlass nor pops; and I myself, for the dear love I bear him, will be the first to lay him on his back." 1913 [originally published in ????], Walter Scott, The Pirate, page 286