Sit out

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun

1
Alternative form of sitout. alt-of, alternative
"During seven NAACP-sponsored school “sit outs” or “holidays” in Jacksonville more than 108,000 children had been kept home by their parents to protest segregated schools and other inequities."
2
Alternative form of sit-out. alt-of, alternative
"The parent says, “If you don't start picking up your dirty clothes by the time I count to three, you will need to take a sit out.”"

Verb

1
To decline to participate; particularly, to decline to dance. ambitransitive
"I don't like this tune, and I'm rather tired, so I think I'll just sit out."
2
endure to the end wordnet
3
To await the cessation of, without taking part. transitive
"A large proportion of the millhands sat out the strike in their native villages, sometimes hundreds of miles from Bombay; the remainder survived precariously in the city with the help of casual labour and rations of grain […]"
4
not participate in (an activity, such as a dance or a sports event) wordnet
5
To be away from the table in the midst of an ongoing game, thus automatically placing one's forced bets and otherwise folding every hand when it is one's time to act.

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6
To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
7
To escape a hold while face down by swinging one's legs around into the sitting position.

"I don't like this tune, and I'm rather tired, so I think I'll just sit out."