sitout

English edit

Alternative forms edit

sit out, sit-out

Etymology edit

sit +‎ out

Noun edit

sitout (plural sitouts)

(chiefly India, Nigeria) An outdoor area that is set up for sitting, including a floor and seats, and possibly, but not necessarily having a roof, screens, or elevated platform.
- 1999, Sakuntala Narasimhan, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: The Romantic Rebel, page 97:
  Here an entire village ambience has been recreated in every detail, with mud huts, courtyards with traditional terra cotta figures, wall paintings, a fishing corner with traditional nets, sitouts with swings, even a village chariot used for annual festivities, all put together not as a show piece but as a living tradition — complete with even a rustic couple lustily singing folk songs to the accompaniment of a typical folk musical instrument— it is a world in itself that one walks into, to get a taste of what village life could have been like, full of aesthetic touches in each and every artifact.
- 2004, K. V. Ravisankar, Kerala Tourism Handbook 2005, page 99:
  Accommodation comprises of elegantly designed independent AC cottages (Mappilapura), AC Executive/Deluxe suites (Malabar Suites) and Superior AC Rooms with sitouts which offer the glimpse of breath taking beauty of Kerala's natural landscapes.
- 2011, The Rough Guide to India:
  Its five themed en-suite rooms are large and most have funky little sitouts.
(wrestling) A wrestling move that is often used to escape from a hold in which one straightens one's legs to get into a sitting position where one can use them for leverage.
- 1976, Recreational Wrestling, page 53:
  . From this position, start a sitout by extending your left leg. Drop your opponent, but keep a firm hold on his arm.
- 2015, Terry Davis, Vision Quest, page 9:
  I throw my best moves from here. I walk out on him — "crawl" out, actually, charging on my hands and knees, like a giant little kid escaping from his playpen; then I explode into a sitout and reverse for two points.
- 2003, Nolan Zavoral, A Season on the Mat:
  Her husband, Dick Jr., was a longtime assistant coach at Norwalk, and Janella proudly claimed that she knew a sitout when she saw one.
A protest action in which protesters refuse to go to work or school, or in which they show up but do not work.
- 1969, Congressional Serial Set, page 147:
  Yes, we do see a small handful of disparaging youths and adults getting the hog's share of publicity with their noisy riots, flag and draft card burnings, sitins and sitouts, defiance of law and order and licentious — excessive — liberties.
- 1971, The Economist - Volume 239, page 52:
  Walkouts, sitouts, strikes and court suits are all the vogue among the disgruntled football, basketball and baseball players.
- 1977, James Michael Lee, The Religious Education We Need, page 12:
  Angry parades, sitouts and other perennial forms of protest preceded capitulation.
Alternative form of sit-out
- 1965, George Eaton Simpson, John Milton Yinger, Racial and cultural minorities: an analysis of prejudice and discrimination, page 486:
  Many Negroes feel that the only effective answer to the "sitout" is the boycott or "selective buying."
- 1973, Ruth Elizabeth Barstow, Coping with Emphysema, page 61:
  His many "sitouts" for rest increased dressing time considerably.
- 2000, Congressus Numerantium - Volume 142, page 37:
  This construction is possible if and only if the sitouts form a BIBD.

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