Sitout
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 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. India, Nigeria
"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."
- 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."
- 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."
- 4 Alternative form of sit-out. alt-of, alternative
"Many Negroes feel that the only effective answer to the "sitout" is the boycott or "selective buying.""
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From sit + out.
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