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Bout   /baʊt/   Listen
Bout

noun
1.
(sports) a division during which one team is on the offensive.  Synonyms: round, turn.
2.
A period of illness.  "A bout of depression"
3.
A contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers).
4.
An occasion for excessive eating or drinking.  Synonyms: binge, bust, tear.



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"Bout" Quotes from Famous Books



... agreed the carpenter. "Church might be kind of decent, after all. Jim, what you got to say 'bout the subject?" ...
— Bruvver Jim's Baby • Philip Verrill Mighels
... the same; and if anything should happen to take you and your sister away, and Mrs. Jennings should want company, I am sure we should be very glad to come and stay with her for as long a time as she likes. I suppose Lady Middleton won't ask us any more this bout. Good-bye; I am sorry Miss Marianne was not here. Remember me kindly to her. La! if you have not got your spotted muslin on!—I wonder you was not afraid of its ...
— Persuasion • Jane Austen
... of H.M. Houssas, but now a partner in the firm of Tibbetts & Hamilton, Ltd., after a short, sharp bout of malaria, went off to Brighton to recuperate, and to get the whizzy noises out of his head. To him arrived on a morning a special courier in the shape of one Ali, an indubitable Karo boy, but reputedly pure Arab, and a haj, moreover, ...
— Bones in London • Edgar Wallace
... sentiment as if it were one word, Master Candy drew a long breath, and said in a different tone, "I came to see the bird and hear 'bout Grampy; can I?" ...
— Mrs. Tree • Laura E. Richards
... Prissy Mis' Peavey said she were a-setting her cap fer Mr. Hoover and it made Bud mad 'cause he fights 'Lias Hoover and he called her a fool. He hadn't oughter done it, but he's touchy 'bout Aunt Prissy and so's Paw. There comes Deacon and ...
— The Road to Providence • Maria Thompson Daviess


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