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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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And it's no better to lose your hard-earned money to a credentialed huckster than to an out-and-out con man.
Because by my reckoning, this is the first out-and-out Total Stinker of this year's selection.
I've never been an out-and-out sports fanatic, never wanted to play for my country, and never precisely hero-worshiped the players of my day.
Maybe attacker is not the right word to describe Totti, he is an out-and-out goalscorer, a pure striker.
We don't get a whole lot of out-and-out censorship here, but it's not for a lack of the basic human urge to silence people we disagree with.
He can play as an out-and-out forward or drop off and play as a target man behind him.

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