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outer Definition


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outer
adj
    1. External; belonging to or for the outside.
      Thesaurus: external, outward, without, extrinsic to, extraneous to, outside, foreign to, alien to, exterior, peripheral.
    2. Further from the centre or middle.
noun
    1a. archery.
      The outermost ring on a target;
    1b. archery.
      A shot which hits this.
    (Austral)
    (NZ)
    2. The unsheltered part of the spectator enclosure at a sports ground.
Idiom: on the outer
    (ustral, NZ)
    Excluded; out in the cold.
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon uterra.



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