shout-out
Americannoun
Usage
What does shout-out mean? A shout-out is a short public acknowledgement of someone or something, especially by name. It’s usually to recognize someone in appreciation of them or something they did. Shout-outs are typically given in a public setting, such as on the radio, during a live performance, or on social media. Shout-out is informal. It’s commonly used to start a sentence that announces a shout-out, as in Shout-out to the people in the back! Less commonly, shout-out is also used as a verb, as in Let me shout-out a few people real quick. It’s very commonly spelled as shoutout. Example: Thanks to your shout-out in the last post, I gained a ton of followers.
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Rescuers will shout out into rubble, he says, stating who they are and using some of the local language to see whether they can hear anybody trapped within.
From BBC • Jun. 29, 2026
And so I wanted to shout out these neighborhoods that really mean something to me.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
A. Hopefully O’Brien will shout out his Brookline High School home team during the monologue!
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
"Some schools have phone, radios - some you just open the door and shout out into the corridor and nobody comes," she said.
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026
“What we noticed was that the first time through, kids would shout out the name of the letter after Jones did,” Sam Gibbon says.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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