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stand out, n. (and adj.) phr.
Now usu. standout or with hyphen.
[f. vbl. phr. stand out: see stand v. 99.]
1. [After lock-out.] A workmen's strike.
1898Westm. Gaz. 12 Jan. 2/2 They are all protected by a strike clause, which says that a ‘strike or stand out’ by their workmen may be a sufficient excuse for non-completion of their contract. 1901R. Murray Hist. Hawick I. 95 Hawick had hitherto been free from strikes, or ‘stands oot’, as they were called.
2. a. One who stands out from the crowd; an outstanding or conspicuous person or thing. N. Amer. colloq.
1928Collier's 29 Dec. 26/2 When the show opened, this girl had improved in her dancing so amazingly that she was a distinct ‘standout’. 1936Sun (Baltimore) 13 July 4/1 The smash-ups are staged realistically, the standout being that in which an apparently new..car hurtles over a parapet and arcs one hundred feet or so through the air. 1938D. Baker Young Man with Horn iii. ii. 145 He was blessed above the run of band leaders. It isn't given to all organizers to have a stand-out in their organizations. 1944Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 8 Jan. 14/3 John Hersey's novel about the AMG in Italy, ‘A Bell for Adano’, is likely to be one of the action stand-outs of the new season. 1958Times 24 Nov. (Canad. Suppl.) p. xii/6, If they see a boy who is a standout,..they can't go wrong by putting him down as a good prospect. 1979Time 8 Jan. 46/2 Another campus standout, Phyllis Wallace, now in her 50s, has been burdened by prejudice against blacks as well as women.
b. attrib. phr. or as adj.
1932Sun (Baltimore) 15 Aug. 9/1 California's rowing triumph and Japan's first swimming conquest were the stand-out performances. 1955Keepnews & Grauer Pictorial Hist. Jazz xi. 117/2 Red Nichols and Miff Mole were the stand-out figures in this phase. 1978J. Irving World according to Garp viii. 162 Robert Muldoon, a standout tight end for the Philadelphia Eagles. |
