Talk:turn out

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I read that turning in/out means turning toward the side/center of the stage, but I can't find any examples of use. DAVilla 02:19, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

RFV discussion: February 2020

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turn out

RFV sense 10:

(sex, transitive, slang) To convince a person (usually a woman) to become a prostitute.

2008, Carolyn Maloney, Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

He then turned her out onto the streets of Chicago with a quota to meet: $500 for a night's work.

The quotation seems to me to be essentially sense 9, "to eject", with the purpose or result implied by the context, rather than a separate sense. Mihia (talk) 23:56, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Perhaps, but there are enough others to be found: here, here, here and here, for instance. It seems to be AAVE, so you may not have run into it in the UK. Chuck Entz (talk) 00:34, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

I don't think it's AAVE. It's American slang, but not restricted to any one community. "I. ANN'S TURN-OUT ESTABLISHMENT A professional prostitute, whether she works as a streetwalker, house prostitute, or call girl, can usually pick out one person in her past who "turned her out," that is, who taught her the basic techniques and rules of the prostitute's occupation."[1] I wish I could see more, but that's a decent cite (from Barbara Sherman Heyl) that's been reprinted a lot.--Prosfilaes (talk) 04:44, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

• OK, thanks. Mihia (talk) 15:17, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

It wasn't the best citation. I've added two more. "Like I told you, I'm still turning this one bitch out. […] Sunday is three days away, if you ain't turned her out by then she ain't worth it." And: "The nigga that turned her out was named Derek “Sweets” D. I despised that pimping motherfucker with passion." Equinox ◑ 21:55, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 20:30, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

dress somebody up

to clothe yourself or somebody else in a particular way (often passive)
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--Backinstadiums (talk) 16:17, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

as it turned out

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/as+it+turned+out --Backinstadiums (talk) 08:03, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

What sense is this?

To attend, show up? Or to get out of bed? (Seems less likely; the context is prior to bedtime.) Or simply to go out somewhere (a sense we are lacking, if so)?

• 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt

  But then one of Mr. Knott's men would have had to put on his coat and hat and turn out, as likely as not in the pitch dark, and in torrents of rain in all probability, and grope his way in the dark in the pours of rain, with the pot of food in his hand, a wretched and ridiculous figure, to where the dog lay.

Equinox ◑ 15:45, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

@Equinox: I think it means "to go out of one's home". — SGconlaw (talk) 19:22, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

 Done Equinox ◑ 20:22, 11 September 2021 (UTC)