gross out
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.45 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Something which sickens, causes distress, or appalls by reason of being disgusting, gory, or repulsive.
Canadian usage; American usage; Informal
Example Sentences
- "Notwithstanding that episode, this film is refreshingly low on scatological gags and other gross-out humor, preferring all-purpose bad jokes to bathroom ones."
- "For Marlon Wayans — who returns as writer, star and sparkplug of “A Haunted House 2,” another ramshackle assortment of sight gags, scares, laughs and gross-outs — there is no bottom.[…] Malcolm seeks help via the Internet but not before he has elaborately explicit “sex” with Abigail, easily among the most offensively tasteless gross-outs in a movie that delights in them."
- "On the surface, the film is a globe-trotting gross-out caper in which Nobby, who's from a hellish version of the titular Lincolnshire town ("twinned with Chernobyl"), is reunited with his long-lost brother Sebastian (Mark Strong), who has become a spy for the British secret services."
- "Lisa likes him clean-shaven. "You know, when there's things crawling out of your beard or whenever you've got food left from lunch or dinner, I don't know, that just kind of grosses me out," she says."
- "The Stick of Truth is a game where you can choose to use a toilet and then, later, fling the result at your enemies to weaken them by grossing them out."
Usage
- Canadian usage
- American usage
- Informal
- Transitive verb