dust-out

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See also: dustout

English

Noun

dust-out (plural dust-outs)

  1. Alternative form of dustout
    1. dust cloud that impairs vision.
      • 2014, Philip Atkinson Wade Stubbs, CIRCLE TO CIRCLE: Adventure Riding Across the World, →ISBN:
        Wade will tell you the truck forced him off the road, but what really happened was that in the total dust-out after the truck passed (“I couldn't even see the speedo”), he turned early for the next corner, running off the road.
      • 2013, Janet Richards, Crossing the River Sorrow: One Nurse's Story, →ISBN, page 156:
        ...whiteouts and silty dust-outs, the mosquito body stockings, and the rancid stench of briny lakes all became part of life.
      • 2004, Aerospace Engineering - Volumes 24-25, page 74:
        An enhanced vision system from BAE Systems features a day/night, all- weather capability that enables pilots to navigate and land in adverse conditions by enhancing visibility in dust-outs, smoke, fog, haze, rain, snow, and complete darkness.
    2. A prankster who misleads others.
      • 1972, Editorials on File - Volume 3, Part 1, page 37:
        Even then, shirkers and dust-outs must expect to answer to the law for thumbing their noses at the U.S.
  2. Cleanup.
    • 2014, James Tiptree Jr., Brightness Falls From the Air, →ISBN:
      The place needs a good dust-out.
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