Usually means: Completely, thoroughly, without any reservation.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word out and out:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. out and out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. out-and-out: Merriam-Webster
  3. out-and-out: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. out-and-out: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. out-and-out, out-and-out: Collins English Dictionary
  6. out-and-out: Vocabulary.com
  7. out-and-out: Wordnik
  8. out-and-out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. out-and-out, out and out: Wiktionary
  10. out-and-out: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. out-and-out: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Out and out, out-and-out, out and out: Dictionary.com
  13. out-and-out: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. OUT AND OUT: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  15. Out and Out: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. out-and-out, out and out: FreeDictionary.org
  17. out-and-out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. out-and-out, out and out: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. out-and-out, out and out: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. out-and-out: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. out and out: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (out and out)

▸ adverb:  (dated) Completely; thoroughly.

Similar:
right-down, downright, rank, complete, absolute, sheer, flat out, utterly, thoroughgoingly, all out, more...

Opposite:
incomplete, partial, qualified, limited, hesitant

Phrases:
out of shape and out of breath, out of place and out of time, out and out rout, in out one ear and out the other, more...

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Similar:
right-down, downright, rank, complete, absolute, sheer, flat out, utterly, thoroughgoingly, all out, more...

Opposite:
incomplete, partial, qualified, limited, hesitant

Phrases:
out of shape and out of breath, out of place and out of time, out and out rout, in out one ear and out the other, more...



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