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sitout en · NOUN

Etymology

From sit + out.

Meanings

1. (India, Nigeria) An outdoor area that is set up for sitting, including a floor and seats, and possibly, but not necessarily having a roof, screens, or elevated platform.
   • Its five themed en-suite rooms are large and most have funky little sitouts. 2011, The Rough Guide to India:
   • Accommodation comprises of elegantly designed independent AC cottages (Mappilapura), AC Executive/Deluxe suites (Malabar Suites) and Superior AC Rooms with sitouts which offer the glimpse of breath taking beauty of Kerala's natural landscapes. 2004, K. V. Ravisankar, Kerala Tourism Handbook 2005, page 99:
   • Here an entire village ambience has been recreated in every detail, with mud huts, courtyards with traditional terra cotta figures, wall paintings, a fishing corner with traditional nets, sitouts with swings, even a village chariot used for annual festivities, all put together not as a show piece but as a living tradition — complete with even a rustic couple lustily singing folk songs to the accompaniment of a typical folk musical instrument— it is a world in itself that one walks into, to get a taste of what village life could have been like, full of aesthetic touches in each and every artifact. 1999, Sakuntala Narasimhan, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: The Romantic Rebel, page 97:
2. A wrestling move that is often used to escape from a hold in which one straightens one's legs to get into a sitting position where one can use them for leverage.
   • . From this position, start a sitout by extending your left leg. Drop your opponent, but keep a firm hold on his arm. 1976, Recreational Wrestling, page 53:
   • Her husband, Dick Jr., was a longtime assistant coach at Norwalk, and Janella proudly claimed that she knew a sitout when she saw one. 2003, Nolan Zavoral, A Season on the Mat:
   • I throw my best moves from here. I walk out on him — "crawl" out, actually, charging on my hands and knees, like a giant little kid escaping from his playpen; then I explode into a sitout and reverse for two points. 2015, Terry Davis, Vision Quest, page 9:
3. A protest action in which protesters refuse to go to work or school, or in which they show up but do not work.
   • Yes, we do see a small handful of disparaging youths and adults getting the hog's share of publicity with their noisy riots, flag and draft card burnings, sitins and sitouts, defiance of law and order and licentious — excessive — liberties. 1969, Congressional Serial Set, page 147:
   • Angry parades, sitouts and other perennial forms of protest preceded capitulation. 1977, James Michael Lee, The Religious Education We Need, page 12:
   • Walkouts, sitouts, strikes and court suits are all the vogue among the disgruntled football, basketball and baseball players. 1971, The Economist - Volume 239, page 52:
4. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of sit-out.
   alt of sit-out
   • This construction is possible if and only if the sitouts form a BIBD. 2000, Congressus Numerantium - Volume 142, page 37:
   • Many Negroes feel that the only effective answer to the "sitout" is the boycott or "selective buying." 1965, George Eaton Simpson, John Milton Yinger, Racial and cultural minorities: an analysis of prejudice and discrimination, page 486:
   • His many "sitouts" for rest increased dressing time considerably. 1973, Ruth Elizabeth Barstow, Coping with Emphysema, page 61:

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