shutout
[shuht-out]
noun
an act or instance of shutting out.
the state of being shut out.
Sports.
- a preventing of the opposite side from scoring, as in baseball.
- any game in which one side does not score.
RELATED WORDS
disaster, romp, drubbing, whipping, thrashing, embarrassment, debacle, beating, nil, nobody, flight, confusion, trashing, overthrow, upset, shambles, walkover, comedown, ruin, retreat
Nearby words
- shutdown,
- shute,
- shute, nevil,
- shuteye,
- shutoff,
- shutter,
- shutter priority,
- shutter release,
- shutter speed,
- shutter-bug
Origin of shutout
1850–55, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase shut out
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Examples from the Web for shutout
Any day that you score seven touchdowns in this league and turn in a shutout should be a day of celebration.
He lies buried in his death-city Ravenna, "shutout from my native shores."
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia|Edited by Rev. James WoodThe net result was a shutout for Dallas and five runs for New York.
News Writing|M. Lyle Spencer
shutout
noun
verb shut out (tr, adverb)
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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.
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