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Run out

To use up; to consume all of something.

📖 Definitions of "Run out"

verb
  1. 1

    To use up; to consume all of something.

    "If this hot weather continues, we will run out of ice cream."

  2. 2

    To expire; to come to an end; to be completely used up or consumed.

    "My driving licence runs out next week, so I had better renew it now."

  3. 3

    To get a batsman out via a run out (see runout)

    "Jackson was run out for a duck in the first over."

  4. 4

    To be got out in this way.

noun
  1. 1

    Something that has been run out.

    "The freeway guardrail runout around this object is shorter than recommended."

  2. 2

    A run out, a running out. The method of getting out in which a batsman, in making a run, has not reached the popping crease when a fielder breaks his wicket with the ball.

  3. 3

    A relatively flat portion at the end of a ski run to slow down, or to connect trails.

  4. 4

    Slowing down at the end of a ski run, skiing on a runout.

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