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Definition of "flat-out" []

  • Informal Thoroughgoing; out-and-out: a flat-out promotional campaign; a flat-out deception. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "flat-out" in a sentence
  • "WASHINGTON - The Obama administration and four states are accusing a private, for-profit college of illegally paying recruiters to enroll students in an $11 billion fraud, the latest action in a long-running examination of the industry's recruitment techniques and an allegation the company called "flat-out wrong.""
  • "The sheriffs say they barely know these guys, which is a flat-out lie."
  • "Mr. Wilson flat-out advised me to stop and definitely pulled hisself out of the equation, saying the only gun he wanted pointed at him had to have a set of balls and be loaded with cum . . . not bullets."