darwin out
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.76 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To remove (a person) from the gene pool when they engage in foolish, thoughtless, or reckless behavior.
Derogatory; Humorous; Slang
verb
Alternative letter-case form of Darwin out
Example Sentences
- "Let's face it, it's just not possible. A guy like that in The Bronx could never make it to the age where he could get a license. He'd be Darwinned-out before he was twelve."
- "Ah, that's intent again. Selection pressure darwins out that which is not best fitted to survive, but a new mutation is by definition yet to be filtered in this way, so all bets are off :-)"
- "See above. The problem (dunderheadedness) has been precisely pointed out, and the solution (darwinning out the dross) is happening as we speak."
- "The prisoners who'd survived, we later learned, had done so only by killing, stacking, and standing on the bodies of the ones that hadn't, which meant that nature had Darwinned out all but the meanest of the mean and the toughest of tough."
- "I know you're not meant to cut toward yourself, and that fatal instinct should have been Darwined out by now, but it does provide a small “geometric design error” component to my injury story, a point my attorney might well use, should we decide later to sue the human body factory."