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hand out

verb

  1. give
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Wiktionary

phrase

  1. a player is out

verb

  1. To distribute; to give out, either by hand or as if so (figuratively).

    Near-synonyms: give out, pass out, send out

    Homer’s entrepreneurial spirit proves altogether overly infectious. Homer gives Barney a pep talk when he encounters him dressed up like a baby handing out fliers (Barney in humiliating costumes=always funny) and it isn’t long until Barney has purchased a truck of his own and set up shop as the Plow King.

  2. To help (someone) from a vehicle.

    ‘Lydgate has a lot of ideas […],’ resumed Mr Brooke, after he had handed out Lady Chettam, and had returned to be civil to a group of Middlemarchers.

    He jumped onto the deck and handed her out of the gondola.

  3. To try to impress (someone) with deceptions.