peace out

English

Pronunciation

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Interjection

peace out

1. (slang) See you later.

Verb

peace out (third-person singular simple present peaces out, present participle peacing out, simple past and past participle peaced out)

1. (intransitive) To become unconscious; to pass out.
   • 2007, Dana Vachon, Mergers & Acquisitions, page 154:

     Lauren was peaced-out in her bedroom, and almost everyone had gone home. I started chilling by the pool with the bartender,

   • 2008 October 29, “JELLO spells death for some”, in The Daily Evergreen, WA:

     The suspect ate a light bulb and bit through a man’s neck before peacing out in a stolen taco van.

2. (transitive) To render unconscious.
   • 2005, David Terrenoire, Beneath a Panamanian Moon, page 253:

     I cracked him with a stone I'd picked up in the garden. The inscription on the stone read PAZ. The man, peaced out, fell back

3. (intransitive) To experience an altered state of consciousness.
   • 1982, Stephen Levine with Ondrea Levine, Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying, page 177:

     And she gets all peaced out and says she feels the presence of the Lord

   • 1994, Douglas Rushkoff, Media Virus!: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture, page 2 59:

     After experiencing the totally peaced out acid trance, the first thing that occurred to most users was "Let's dose the President!"

   • 2005, Carter Coleman, Cage's Bend, page 360:

     "As they say out in Californication" — I try to sound peaced-out like someone from Santa Cruz — "Isabella's way bitching."

   • 2008 April 24, “The light and dark side of DNA”, in MSNBC:

     consider it some sort of "peaced out utopian higherminded enlightenment"

4. (intransitive, slang) To depart.
   • 2007, Dan Brown, The Great Expectations School: A Rookie Year in the New Blackboard Jungle, page 237:

     I am peacing out of that hellhole. Are you still thinking about leaving?"

Translations

to pass out — see pass out

to render unconscious

• Finnish: tainnuttaa (fi)

to experience altered state of consciousness

• Finnish: olla muissa maailmoissa

slang: to depart

• Finnish: häipyä (fi), häippästä, ottaa hatkat