count sb out
— phrasal verb with count uk/kaʊnt/us/kaʊnt/verb
(NOT INCLUDE)
informal to keep someone out or not include someone in an activity or arrangement:
Scuba diving? Oh no, count me out - I hate being under water!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Excluding
- acid-free
- alienate
- apart
- bar
- barring
- cut
- discount
- excluding
- exclusion
- exclusive
- exclusively
- freeze sb out
- hold
- leave sb out in the cold idiom
- out of it idiom
- outside
- present
- present company excepted idiom
- send
- send sb to Coventry idiom
See more results »
(BOXING)
[ often passive ] In a boxing competition, the referee counts a fighter out by counting to ten when they fall to the floor and lose the fight by failing to get up before the end of the counting:
Cooper was counted out in the final round.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Fighting sports
- all-in wrestling
- arm-wrestling
- bantamweight
- black belt
- body blow
- foil
- gumshield
- heavyweight
- jab
- jiujitsu
- judo
- knockout
- left-hander
- punching bag
- rope
- roundhouse kick
- sabre
- savate
- spar
- wrestler
See more results »