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单词 down and out
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down and outv.

Brit. /ˌdaʊn ən(d) ˈaʊt/, U.S. /ˌdaʊn ən ˈaʊt/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: down and out adv.
Etymology: < down and out adv.
colloquial.
transitive. To annihilate or defeat (a person).
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > bring to ruin or put an end to
undoc950
shendOE
forfarea1000
endc1000
to do awayOE
aquenchc1175
slayc1175
slayc1175
stathea1200
tinea1300
to-spilla1300
batec1300
bleschea1325
honisha1325
leesea1325
wastec1325
stanch1338
corrumpa1340
destroy1340
to put awayc1350
dissolvec1374
supplanta1382
to-shend1382
aneantizec1384
avoidc1384
to put outa1398
beshenda1400
swelta1400
amortizec1405
distract1413
consumec1425
shelfc1425
abroge1427
downthringc1430
kill1435
poisonc1450
defeat1474
perish1509
to blow away1523
abrogatea1529
to prick (also turn, pitch) over the perka1529
dash?1529
to bring (also send) to (the) pot1531
put in the pot1531
wipea1538
extermine1539
fatec1540
peppera1550
disappoint1563
to put (also set) beside the saddle1563
to cut the throat of1565
to throw (also turn, etc.) over the perch1568
to make a hand of (also on, with)1569
demolish1570
to break the neck of1576
to make shipwreck of1577
spoil1578
to knock on (in) the head (also rarely at head)1579
cipher1589
ruinate1590
to cut off by the shins1592
shipwreck1599
exterminate1605
finish1611
damnify1612
ravel1614
braina1616
stagger1629
unrivet1630
consummate1634
pulverizea1640
baffle1649
devil1652
to blow up1660
feague1668
shatter1683
cook1708
to die away1748
to prove fatal (to)1759
to knock up1764
to knock (or kick) the hindsight out or off1834
to put the kibosh on1834
to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835
kibosh1841
to chaw up1843
cooper1851
to jack up1870
scuttle1888
to bugger up1891
jigger1895
torpedo1895
on the fritz1900
to put paid to1901
rot1908
down and out1916
scuppera1918
to put the skids under1918
stonker1919
liquidate1924
to screw up1933
cruel1934
to dig the grave of1934
pox1935
blow1936
to hit for six1937
to piss up1937
to dust off1938
zap1976
1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 186 That machine-gun upstairs is a certain invitation to sudden death and the German gunners to down and out us.
1962 Bastard from Bush in ‘S. Hogbotel’ & ‘S. Ffuckes’ Snatches & Layes 58 When you're down and outed, to a hopeless bloody wreck, May you slip back through your arsehole, and break your fucking neck.
1998 Jacksonville (Florida) Free Press 19 Aug. 5 Last year they were down and outed to death by the Steelers during their fourth quarter comeback.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

down and outadv.n.adj.

(as adverb)Brit. /ˌdaʊn ən(d) ˈaʊt/, U.S. /ˈˌdaʊn ən ˈˌaʊt/ (as noun and adjective)Brit. /ˈdaʊn ən(d) aʊt/, U.S. /ˈdaʊn ən ˌaʊt/
Forms: 1800s– down and out, 1900s– down an' out, 1900s– down 'n out, 1900s– down 'n' out.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: down adv., and conj.1, out adv.
Etymology: < down adv. (compare sense 2a at that entry) + and conj.1 + out adv. (compare sense 19c at that entry).
colloquial (originally U.S.)
A. adv.
1.
a. Of a boxer, fighter, etc., that has been knocked to the floor and is unable to continue fighting; ‘out for the count’.
ΚΠ
1894 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 3 Mar. 6/6 Knuckles dealt Cornu a stiff swing on the jaw and Cornu went down and out.
1913 Lake County (Indiana) Times 26 May 3/3 He hit Tex Russell..in the side of the head and put him down and out.
1969 Black Belt Mar. 46/1 Kee Moon came flying out, smashed across the jaw by a billy club. He was down and out, right in the doorway.
1986 R. Sproat Stunning the Punters 83 Bertie was so surprised he was down and out before he could spot how Percy was leaving himself wide open around the breadbasket.
2000 Observer (Nexis) 24 Dec. 11 Botile knocked him down and out in the twelfth in Sheffield last Saturday night.
2017 Liverpool Echo (Nexis) 12 June 48 Previously undefeated Smith, who was down three times, looked to be down and out in the final round.
b. Of a competitor (esp. a sports team): on the verge of defeat; facing certain defeat.
ΚΠ
1916 Tel.-Herald (Dubuque, Iowa) 6 Feb. 24/6 The Browns..were down and out in the pennant race and gate receipts at St. Louis were almost nothing.
1940 Open Road for Boys Sept. 12/1 Once down-and-out the Dodgers were on the way back.
1988 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 16 Sept. d23/1 An 0-3 start would likely put this team down and out.
2000 Rugby World June 48/2 In 1998 Joost's Blue Bulls were down and out, 17–3 adrift, in a Currie Cup semi-final against Natal Sharks.
2. Bridge. to play (also show) down and out: to indicate the ability to trump a partner by following two consecutive leads by one’s partner with two cards of the same suit in descending order of value.
ΚΠ
1900 R. F. Foster Bridge Man. 80 Your partner will know you have no more, just as well as if you had played down and out.
1929 W. C. Whitehead Championship Bridge Hands 29 To follow with a card lower than the Six would show down and out.
1959 D. Parson Fall of Cards 262 Had he played down and out, you would have known that Declarer had another Diamond, and the stratagem would have been exposed.
3. Of a person, country, etc.: completely without resources or means of livelihood; reduced to destitution or vagrancy.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > poverty > in impoverished state [phrase]
to the boneOE
to be out at elbow(sa1616
in (also at) low water1785
down on the knuckle-bone1883
(down) on one's uppers1886
on the rocks1889
down and out1901
on the outer1915
the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > very poor person
armeOE
goodlessa1350
pauper1516
bankrupt?1563
gnaw-bone1607
gnaw-crust1611
have-nothing1755
bone-grubber1817
bone-picker1825
lack-all1850
destitute1863
stiff1899
down and out1901
down-and-outer1906
1901 ‘H. McHugh’ John Henry 31 Say! I was down and out—no kidding!
1922 G. M. Trevelyan Brit. Hist. 19th Cent. xxiii. 375 France was down and out.
1923 J. Cox (title of song) Nobody knows you when you are down and out.
1933 ‘G. Orwell’ (title) Down and out in Paris and London.
1978 E. Anderson Place on Corner iii. 81 Tiger was pretty much down and out, often wondering where his next meal would come from and where he would sleep.
2007 J. Kavenna Inglorious (2008) 39 Yet even now, she wasn't down and out, not destitute at all.
B. n.
1. With singular agreement. A person who has been reduced to destitution or vagrancy; a ‘down and out’ person.
ΚΠ
1905 Washington Post 15 Oct. (Sporting section) 3/3 Nowadays, when I butt into one of the down-and-outs around a racetrack he's got to give me a peek at what he's wearing underneath his outside make-up of punk togs, for it may be the Lyons silk kind at $75 the suit.
1917 J. Farnol Definite Object vi. 49 I don't want 'em to think I'm floatin' around with a down-an'-out from Battyville.
1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Jan. 15/2 After leaving school he emigrated into what he calls Fitzrovia—a world of outsiders, down-and-outs, drunks, sensualists, homosexuals and eccentrics.
1968 T. Parker People of Streets 31 The assistance is for the poor people really, the ones who they call the down-and-outs.
2009 Sunday Sun (Nexis) 12 Apr. 61 Johnnie..is a down-and-out trying to make ends meet against the odds.
2. With the and plural agreement. ‘Down and out’ people collectively.
ΚΠ
1909 R. W. Service Ballads of Cheechako 16 One of the Down and Out—that's me. Stare at me well, ay, stare!
1923 H. L. Foster Beachcomber in Orient x. 215 Nowhere in my travels had I ever found a city so full of the down-and-out as was Singapore at that particular moment.
1995 N.Y. Times 11 Jan. c8/6 (heading) Top chefs aid the down and out.
2007 Maclean's (Toronto) 1 Jan. 20 Although it has a reputation for being a cheap high for the down-and-out, the reality is increasingly different.
C. adj.
Of a person: completely without resources or means of livelihood; reduced to destitution or vagrancy. Also of places, circumstances, etc.: characteristic of an impoverished or vagrant existence; exhibiting a deterioration into squalor.
ΚΠ
1906 N.Y. City Mission Monthly Nov. 5 Instead of being a poor down-and-out ‘bum’, as some folks would call me, I am a Lodging House Missionary.
1912 C. A. Starr Underworld to Upper viii. 79 When a man has passed fifty or fifty-five in the down-and-out life, the chances are not one in a hundred that he will ever leave that life.
1968 T. Parker People of Streets 159 Billy Costello, down-and-out dosser, twenty-four years old.
1975 P. Kronhausen & E. Kronhausen Sex People iii. 22 The main drag, Avenida Juarez, was a sort of down-and-out, carny-style Vegas.
2013 Canberra Times (Nexis) 23 July a8 He is learning about the wretchedness of his permanently down-and-out brothers and sisters.

Derivatives

ˌdown-and-ˈouter n. a person who has been reduced to destitution or vagrancy.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > very poor person
armeOE
goodlessa1350
pauper1516
bankrupt?1563
gnaw-bone1607
gnaw-crust1611
have-nothing1755
bone-grubber1817
bone-picker1825
lack-all1850
destitute1863
stiff1899
down and out1901
down-and-outer1906
1906 Up-to-the-Times Nov. 30/1 You have no difficulty in recognizing a Down-and-Outer wherever he may be. He has a hangdog, dejected, beaten and buffeted appearance.
1967 Boston Sunday Herald 2 Apr. 27/2 Two down and outers, looking for some rich people to marry, find each other.
1989 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 25 Nov. Richards' characters are usually what are often called—delicately, in quotation marks—ordinary, working-class people or, worse, down-and-outers.
2016 Gold Coast Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 14 Apr. 22 The Coast's down-and-outers were no longer old but jobless, disillusioned teenagers.
ˌdown-and-ˈoutness n. the state or condition of being reduced in circumstances; destitution, vagrancy.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > extreme poverty or destitution
nakedness1526
starkness1544
beggary1581
destitutiona1600
primary poverty1901
down-and-outness1907
Tobacco Road1937
1907 N.Y. Times 7 Feb. 5/1 Mr. Keller had striven to please, contrasting the survival of Gen. Porter among after-dinner speakers with the down-and-outness of Senator Depew.
1972 M. Sinclair Folio Forty-one iii. 28 The shabbiness of the demonstrators, the studied down-and-outness, that itself was a sort of mediocre conformity.
1994 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 15 Jan. d20 Homelessness and down-and-outness..have now become accepted and formalized as part of society.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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