try-out

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English

Etymology

Deverbal from try out.

Noun

try-out (plural try-outs)

  1. Alternative form of tryout
    • 2004, Peggy Roberts, Daily Skill Builders: Reading 5-6:
      By the first day of try-outs, the sheets were completely filled with students' names.
    • 2012, Don Blackwell, Dear Ashley:
      The setting was the youth league baseball try-outs in the small town of Boland, New Hampshire. Also in attendance at the try-outs was John Harding, a hometown hero who, together with his wife, Sally, and their soon-to-be 8-year-old son, Rick, had only recently returned to Boland to settle down and begin John's tenure as the President and CEO of Millennium International, one of the largest computer companies in the country.
    • 2015, Merrie A. Fidler, The Origins and History of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, page 107:
      The next thing I was invited to a try-out in South Bend, Indiana.

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