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What does out-and-out mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word out-and-out? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Complete, utter.
  2. (animal husbandry) thoroughly cross-bred; a breeding strategy esp. with poultry where new roosters are circulated yearly to maintain a mongrel flock.
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Because by my reckoning, this is the first out-and-out Total Stinker of this year's selection.
He can play as an out-and-out forward or drop off and play as a target man behind him.
Because the movie is too lazy to set up some grifts, Reilly and Luna are established as out-and-out thieves.
Major media are far more generally visual, and are often filled with out-and-out eye candy.
They are superbly rich, as chocolatey, gooey and indulgent as any fantasising slimmer, or out-and-out greedy guts, could ever wish for.
He was also an ardent heretic and freethinker, maybe an out-and-out atheist, and a vocal defender of the ideas of Charles Darwin.

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