gross-out
noun
something that is disgustingly offensive.
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gross-out
American
[grohs-out]
/ ˈgroʊsˌaʊt /
noun
Slang.
gross out
British
verb
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of gross-out
First recorded in 1970–75; noun use of verb phrase gross out
Example Sentences
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The film introduces us to Ricky Bobby’s family with a gross-out splat, implying the soon-to-be stock car racer was born in the back of a speeding Chevelle driven by his reprobate father.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Ms. Sherman’s body-horror aesthetic has been compared to filmmaker David Cronenberg’s, though gross-out comedy is hardly new.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
The idea that you could see a weird gross-out movie with your family.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2025
Although the story loses steam as it nears the finish, unable to clearly flesh out what the madness means, the trip there is paved with gross-out mayhem.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2023
I don’t care that I am a gross-out.
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
The filthy combination of it all merged into a gigantic germ inside of me, causing me to gross out myself — in addition to Mr. James and the rest of the internal staff.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2023
Occasionally, all this goop and glop is used to gross out viewers.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2021
It’s never there to gross out viewers or to test their threshold of shock or disgust.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 23, 2019
“Moist is fine,” the writer says, and he has no problems with other seemingly mundane words that oddly gross out large swaths of the English-speaking population.
From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2013
Everything tasted gross out of plastic, all chemical-y and bland.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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