sitout
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Indian usage
noun
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.
noun
A protest action in which protesters refuse to go to work or school, or in which they show up but do not work.
noun
Alternative form of sit-out.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Accommodation comprises of elegantly designed independent AC cottages (Mappilapura), AC Executive/Deluxe suites (Malabar Suites) and Superior AC Rooms with sitouts which offer the glimpse of breath taking beauty of Kerala's natural landscapes."
- "Its five themed en-suite rooms are large and most have funky little sitouts."
- ". From this position, start a sitout by extending your left leg. Drop your opponent, but keep a firm hold on his arm."
- "I throw my best moves from here. I walk out on him — "crawl" out, actually, charging on my hands and knees, like a giant little kid escaping from his playpen; then I explode into a sitout and reverse for two points."
- "Her husband, Dick Jr., was a longtime assistant coach at Norwalk, and Janella proudly claimed that she knew a sitout when she saw one."
Etymology
From sit + out.