shutout

[shuht-out]

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noun

an act or instance of shutting out.
the state of being shut out.
Sports.
1. a preventing of the opposite side from scoring, as in baseball.
2. any game in which one side does not score.

Origin of shutout

1850–55, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase shut out

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Related Words for shutout

disaster, romp, drubbing, whipping, thrashing, embarrassment, debacle, beating, shutout, nil, nobody, flight, confusion, trashing, overthrow, upset, shambles, walkover, comedown, ruin

Examples from the Web for shutout

Contemporary Examples of shutout

Any day that you score seven touchdowns in this league and turn in a shutout should be a day of celebration.
The Night Vince Lombardi Lay Awake Brooding Over a 49-0 Win
W.C. Heinz
January 25, 2014

Historical Examples of shutout

The net result was a shutout for Dallas and five runs for New York.
News Writing
M. Lyle Spencer
He lies buried in his death-city Ravenna, "shutout from my native shores."
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
Edited by Rev. James Wood

British Dictionary definitions for shutout

shutout

noun

a less common word for a lockoutSee lock out (noun)
sport a game in which the opposing team does not score

verb shut out (tr, adverb)

to keep out or exclude
to conceal from sightwe planted trees to shut out the view of the road
to prevent (an opponent) from scoring

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Word Origin and History for shutout

also shut-out, 1889 in baseball sense, from verbal phrase shut out "exclude from a situation" (late 14c.; from 1881 in the sports score sense), from shut (v.) + out (adv.). Middle English had a verb outshut "to shut out, exclude," mid-15c.