chalk out
English
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editchalk out (third-person singular simple present chalks out, present participle chalking out, simple past and past participle chalked out)
- (transitive) To draw or write down (something) using chalk.
- (transitive, figurative) to make (plans); to sketch (something); to describe (a plan).
- 1795–1797, Edmund Burke, “(please specify |letter=1 to 4)”, in [Letters on a Regicide Peace], London: [Rivington]:
- I shall pursue the plan I have chalked out.
- (US, intransitive, horse racing) In a multi-race wager, to lose to the favorite in all of the remaining races.
- A 25-1 shot won race 3, but the rest of the early pick 5 chalked out after that.
- (US, intransitive, slang) To die.
- (US, transitive, slang) To kill (someone).