inside-out
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See also: inside out
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
inside-out (not comparable)
- (rare, obsolete) Synonym of sidelong.
- 1850 May, The New Monthly Magazine & Humourist, page 111:
- ...with a nudge of the elbow, and an inside-out squint of his eyes...
- With the inner and outer surfaces reversed.
- Antonym: right-side-out
- 1893 May, Temple Bar, page 31:
- These curious gloves... have two thumbs, so that by an inside-out process they can get another pair of gloves when the palm becomes worn out.
- 1932 April, Michigan Technic, page 6:
- This force is all that prevents the blades from pointing straight up like an inside-out umbrella.
- 2009 September 7, The New Yorker, page 25:
- Brian Rosenworcel... was wearing gray Crocs and an inside-out T-shirt.
- (tennis) Describing cross-court shots made by the unexpected hand, as of a backhand return of a ball struck to the player's forehand.
- 1977 March 15, The Washington Post, page D5:
- ...cracking an ‘inside-out’ backhand past Rahim on the set point...
- 2014 July 2, The Daily Telegraph, Sports Sect., p. 6:
- Kyrgios hits a thumping inside-out forehand to Raonic's weaker wing, the backhand.
Synonyms
- (with reversed inner & outer surfaces): extroverted (medical)
Translations
with the inside turned to be on the outside
Adverb
inside-out (not comparable)
- Alternative form of inside out
References
- “inside-out, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
