turn out
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turn out
Where it comes from
From Middle English turnen out, tornen out, equivalent to turn + out.
The slang and prison terms meaning "to turn into a prostitute, etc." are probably an ellipsis for turn (inside) out (“to flip someone's character or role”).
verb turns out · turning out · turned out
- To end up; to result. I had hoped our first meeting would turn out better.
- To succeed; work out; turn out well. I'm afraid the cake didn't turn out.
- To attend; show up. Hundreds of people turned out to see the parade.
- To go out; to leave one's home. But then one of Mr. Knott's men would have had to put on his coat and hat and turn out, as likely as not in the pitch dark, and in torrents of rain in all probability, and grope his way in the dark in the pours of rain, with the pot of food in his hand, a wretched and ridiculous figure, to where the
- To extinguish a light or other device. Turn out the lights before you leave.
- To become apparent or known, especially (as) it turns out It turns out that he just made a lucky guess.
- To produce; make. The bakery turns out three hundred pies each day.
- To leave a road. Turn out at the third driveway.
- To remove from a mould, bowl etc. Turn out the dough onto a board and shape it.
- To empty for inspection. Please turn out your pockets.
- To refuse service or shelter; to eject or evict. The hotel staff hastened to turn out the noisy drunk.
- To convince a person (usually a woman) to become a prostitute; to pimp or manage a prostitute. He then turned her out onto the streets of Chicago with a quota to meet: $500 for a night's work.
- To rape; to coerce an otherwise heterosexual individual into performing a homosexual role.
- To put (cattle) out to pasture.
- To convince to vote turn out potential voters
- To leave one's work to take part in a strike.
- To get out of bed; get up.
