Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

all-hang-out

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.59 in modern English

Syllables: al-l-hang-out
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

unrestrained in narration, often to an indecorous extent.

Example Sentences

"Although The Human Voice parody in Law of Desire was a funny conceit, all out of control and frantic nervousness, Women on the Verge shows Almodóvar to be in tight form, the laughs emerging from a skilled manipulation of the farce structure rather than all-hang-out anarchism of Matador or Law of Desire."
"[…] the "all-hang-out" school of contemporary biography to which Morgan's book belongs"

Etymology

From the phrase let it all hang out.

Questions

What does all-hang-out mean?: unrestrained in narration, often to an indecorous extent.
Where does all-hang-out come from?: From the phrase let it all hang out.

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