hideout
- noun
- /ˈhaɪˌdaʊt/
- He was using this place as a hideout, and now he's back to his life of crime.
One'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
A house where people in danger hide to stay safe
A safe place where people go to escape danger
A place where criminals hide and plan crimes
A secret place where nobody can find a person or thing
A private place where someone goes to be alone
A secret place used as a hideout, often by criminals
A small secret place to keep things safe or be alone
A thick area of bushes where animals hide
A private place to go to relax or hide from others
A small narrow space where a person can hide
A place where someone hides to wait secretly, often to do something bad
Antonyms
How Secret
Surface Forms
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.