Usually means: Prevent opponent from scoring points.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word shut out:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. shut out: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. shut out: Vocabulary.com
  3. shut-out: Wordnik
  4. shut out: Wiktionary
  5. shut out: Dictionary.com
  6. Shut Out (album), Shut Out (horse), Shut Out (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. shut out: Rhymezone
  8. shut out: Free Dictionary
  9. shut out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. shut out: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  2. shut out: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shut out: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shut out: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shut out: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shut out: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shut Out: Backgammon
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Shut out: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shut out)

verb:  (transitive) To prevent from entering; to block or exclude.
verb:  (transitive) To hide from sight.
verb:  (transitive) To refuse to be open and vulnerable toward.
verb:  (sports) To prevent from scoring; to perform a shutout.
noun:  Nonstandard spelling of shutout. [Closing and forbidding entry, as a lockout in which management prevents works from working.]

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