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What does out-and-out mean?

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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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A winger to me is a striker, a finisher, an out-and-out attacker with an aggressive and instinctive nose for the try-line.
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.
Major media are far more generally visual, and are often filled with out-and-out eye candy.
And it's no better to lose your hard-earned money to a credentialed huckster than to an out-and-out con man.
He was also an ardent heretic and freethinker, maybe an out-and-out atheist, and a vocal defender of the ideas of Charles Darwin.
By and large, he appears to be on top of things, but there are times when they play like out-and-out scatterbrains.

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