to put out
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9.9
- phrasal verb
- /pʊt aʊt/
- Offensive
:
echarse (vulgar)
- It seems she isn't ready to put out, no matter how much he tries.
- girls who put out
And you're going to stay there until you either quit or you start putting out for your boat crew.
- And you're going to stay there until you either quit or you start putting out for your boat crew.
Examples
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She decided to put out for him after they had been dating for a while.
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Believe me, women 'put out' (to be blunt) when they are made to feel special and wanted.
Blog text (19) -
Hey, I hear college girls really put out.
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What, does she put out?
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Hey, you want us to come along, make sure she puts out?
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You think she puts out for him, Hank?
Fiction book (1992) -
She's obviously not gonna put out, man.
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And you've got a girl there, some sex kitten from the Upper West Side who puts out.
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We're freshmen, where all the girls'll be puttin' out.
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You act all sexy, you acted all interested, you acted like you were into me, then when it's time to put out you don't give me anything?
Antonyms
How Willing
Surface Forms
Morphology
The anesthetic sense is partially inferable because 'put' can mean 'place into a state' and 'out' can signal loss of consciousness in constructions like 'knock out' or 'black out', so there is a conceptual link to making someone unconscious. However, 'out' more typically means 'outside' for learners and the specific medical/useful sense 'put (someone) out' = 'sedate/put to sleep' is idiomatic and register-specific, so a B1 learner who only knows the constituents would likely not fully predict it.
Etymology
Put out in slang meaning 'to agree to have sex' may come from the crude image of 'putting yourself out' or offering your body to someone, so it came to mean agreeing to sex.