fallout
or fall-out
an unexpected or incidental effect, outcome, or product: the psychological fallout of being obese.
effects; results: emotional fallout from a divorce.
Origin of fallout
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How to use fallout in a sentence
Cassandra, whose hair has already begun to fall out from her court-mandated chemotherapy, could face a similar outcome.
Records are combed, correspondence revealed, skeletons fall out of cupboards.
Three Dicks: Cheney, Nixon, Richard III and the Art of Reputation Rehab | Clive Irving | July 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe ringlets had been allowed to fall out and in their place was a gentler, Farrah Fawcett-style wave.
Deficiencies in vital nutrients cause skin to dry, lips to crack, and hair to fall out.
Ivers recalls thumbing through one of Kenney's books one day, only to have a check for $186,000 fall out.
Doug Kenney: The Odd Comic Genius Behind ‘Animal House’ and National Lampoon | Robert Sam Anson | March 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
For the bed is straitened, so that one must fall out, and a short covering cannot cover both.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousAnd I will break thy bow in thy left hand, and I will cause thy arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousTo do this, the end of the seed buds may be cut, when most of the seeds will fall out if the buds are fully ripe and dry.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.It spots the leaf with hard brown spots that often fall out, producing holes fatal to the value of the crop.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.If he has made the tooth of a poor man to fall out, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver.
The Oldest Code of Laws in the World | Hammurabi, King of Babylon
British Dictionary definitions for fallout
/ (ˈfɔːlˌaʊt) /
the descent of solid material in the atmosphere onto the earth, esp of radioactive material following a nuclear explosion
any solid particles that so descend
informal side-effects; secondary consequences
informal to quarrel or disagree
(intr) to happen or occur
military to leave a parade or disciplinary formation
military the order to leave a parade or disciplinary formation
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Other Idioms and Phrases with fallout
Leave one's place in military ranks, as in After inspection they were ordered to fall out. [First half of 1800s]
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