runout
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2ADJ.
long
PREP.
around
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noun
Something that has been run out.
The landslide had a long runout.
The freeway guardrail runout around this object is shorter than recommended.
The method of getting out (dismissed from play) in which a batsman, in making a run, has not reached the popping crease when a fielder breaks his wicket with the ball.
A relatively flat portion at the end of a ski run to slow down, or to connect trails.
Slowing down at the end of a ski run, skiing on a runout.
If, as people often say, skiing is like sex, then the run-out that follows a great run—that breezy pole-and-glide along a logging road, stream, or moraine back to the lift, hut, truck, or bar—is the cigarette in bed.
The end portion of the groove of a phonographic record, after the recorded sound.
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3The landslide had a long runout.
WiktionaryThe freeway guardrail runout around this object is shorter than recommended.
WiktionaryIf, as people often say, skiing is like sex, then the run-out that follows a great run—that breezy pole-and-glide along a logging road, stream, or moraine back to the lift, hut, truck, or bar—is the c
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