Usually means: Completely, without any reservation whatsoever.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word out-and-out:

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

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

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

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

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Complete, utter.
adjective:  (animal husbandry) Thoroughly cross-bred; a breeding strategy esp. with poultry where new roosters are circulated yearly to maintain a mongrel flock.

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