Meaning

(chiefly India, Nigeria) An outdoor area that is set up for sitting, including a floor and seats, and possibly, but not necessarily having a roof, screens, or elevated platform..

Definitions by Sense

1. (chiefly India, Nigeria) An outdoor area that is set up for sitting, including a floor and seats, and possibly, but not necessarily having a roof, screens, or elevated platform.
2. (wrestling) A wrestling move that is often used to escape from a hold in which one straightens one's legs to get into a sitting position where one can use them for leverage.
3. A protest action in which protesters refuse to go to work or school, or in which they show up but do not work.
4. Alternative form of sit-out.

Example Sentences

Here an entire village ambience has been recreated in every detail, with mud huts, courtyards with traditional terra cotta figures, wall paintings, a fishing corner with traditional nets, sitouts with swings, even a village chariot used for annual festivities, all put together not as a show piece but as a living tradition — complete with even a rustic couple lustily singing folk songs to the accompaniment of a typical folk musical instrument— it is a world in itself that one walks into, to get a taste of what village life could have been like, full of aesthetic touches in each and every artifact.

Accommodation comprises of elegantly designed independent AC cottages (Mappilapura), AC Executive/Deluxe suites (Malabar Suites) and Superior AC Rooms with sitouts which offer the glimpse of breath taking beauty of Kerala's natural landscapes.

Its five themed en-suite rooms are large and most have funky little sitouts.

. From this position, start a sitout by extending your left leg. Drop your opponent, but keep a firm hold on his arm.

I throw my best moves from here. I walk out on him — "crawl" out, actually, charging on my hands and knees, like a giant little kid escaping from his playpen; then I explode into a sitout and reverse for two points.

Her husband, Dick Jr., was a longtime assistant coach at Norwalk, and Janella proudly claimed that she knew a sitout when she saw one.

Yes, we do see a small handful of disparaging youths and adults getting the hog's share of publicity with their noisy riots, flag and draft card burnings, sitins and sitouts, defiance of law and order and licentious — excessive — liberties.

Word Forms

• sitouts
• sit out
• sit-out

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When Should You Use Sitout?

Use sitout when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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