count out

verb counts out · counting out · counted out

1. transitive, of a person or factor To exclude; to dismiss from participation or eligibility. I may not be as young as I used to be, but I can still handle this job. Don't count me out.
2. transitive To enumerate items while organizing or transferring them. The bank teller counted out five twenty-dollar bills and gave them to me.
3. transitive To determine that a competitor has lost a match, by a referee's enumeration aloud of the increments of time for which the competitor has been incapacitated. The champ was knocked unconscious and counted out in the third round.
4. transitive To declare adjourned, as a sitting of the House, when it is ascertained that a quorum is not present.
5. transitive To prevent the accession of (a legitimately elected person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes.