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outside ((adj.))

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adj. — North

of or having to do with the outside (def. la).

See: outside ((n.))(def. 1a)

Quotations

1896

Gairdner had annoyed me a great deal, and no doubt we had worried him not a little, breaking in upon the even and lethargic tenor of his monotonous life with our "outside" (as the great world is called by the denizens of this lone land) hustling ways.

1922

"No bannock and sow-belly; no sir! Real raised outside bread and genuine cow-butter from the mission. Green stuff from the mission garden...."

1958

"Expense! . . . Don't show your ignorance by using that cheap Outside word."