Get-out
noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 An opportunity to escape from an undesirable situation, such as a legal loophole. informal
""[T]he authorities will say they were sorry to be a bit late, but there are technical difficulties in making adequate arrangements. That's the regular kind of get-out, isn't it?""
- 2 The dismantling and removal of equipment, scenery, etc. when leaving a theater or television studio at the end of a production.
"[…] it is therefore prudent to include the get-out costs in the production budget rather than as an accrual in the running budget."
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More examples"What is a club in any case? Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it. It’s not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive boxes. It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city. It’s a small boy clambering up stadium steps for the very first time, gripping his father’s hand, gawping at that hallowed stretch of turf beneath him and, without being able to do a thing about it, falling in love."
Etymology
Deverbal from get out.
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