hideout
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4.0
- noun
- /ˈhaɪˌdaʊt/
- He was using this place as a hideout, and now he's back to his life of crime.
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Watch on YouTubeOne's called True Confessions of a Kid and the other one's called Hideouts for Midgets on the Lam.
- One's called True Confessions of a Kid and the other one's called Hideouts for Midgets on the Lam.
Examples
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The criminals fled to their hideout in the woods to avoid capture.
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I guess he needed a hideout or something.
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Yes, I used... I used to drive them both to a secret hideout they had, in the country.
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You know we cannot let the white eyes see where our hideout is.
Fiction book (1993) -
Show us the way to your hideout.
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We'll be doing so here at the hideout for at least the next 48 hours.
Blog text (13) -
The hideout was monitored by cameras, that recorded how they came in and out of the house.
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We had a secret hideout where the far end of the playground met the bushes.
Fiction book (2000) -
The Mineola Hotel was a well-known hideout of gangster Al Capone during the Prohibition Era.
Blog text (32) -
She found a safe hideout in an abandoned building to escape the storm.
Synonyms
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4.1
A safe place where people go to escape danger
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4.8
A house where people in danger hide to stay safe
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2.5
A secret place where nobody can find a person or thing
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6.0
A secret place used as a hideout, often by criminals
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5.1
A private place where someone goes to be alone
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8.0
A place where criminals hide and plan crimes
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7.5
A small secret place to keep things safe or be alone
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7.0
A small narrow space where a person can hide
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7.9
A thick area of bushes where animals hide
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8.3
A private place to go to relax or hide from others
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9.4
A place where someone hides to wait secretly, often to do something bad
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Morphology
Etymology
The word hideout is built from hide ('to keep from being seen') and out ('away'). So a hideout is literally a place to 'hide away', a secret place where someone stays to avoid being found.