ˈoutˌgoer
[out- 8.]
One who goes out (in various senses: see go v. 87); esp. one who goes out of a place, office, occupation, or tenancy; a player, at cricket or the like, who is dismissed.
| 1382 Wyclif 1 Sam. xxii. 17 The kyng seith to the out⁓goers [Vulg. emissariis] in his nedis. 1816 J. Scott Vis. Paris (ed. 5) 25 To take cognizance of incomers and out⁓goers. 1827 J. W. Croker in C. Papers 31 Dec. (1884), The King is exceedingly vexed at the outgoers, and will not take them but on compulsion. 1861 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XXII. ii. 325 Mutual accommodation between incomer and outgoer. 1883 Daily Tel. 15 May 2/7 The outgoer had made 9. 1888 Daily News 22 Sept. 5/1 Of yore [at golf] there was but one set of holes, not a double set for out-goers and incomers. |