turn out

Phrases
Signification (Anglais)

  1. (copulative, idiomatic, intransitive) To end up; to result.
  2. (intransitive) To succeed; work out; turn out well.
  3. (idiomatic, intransitive) To attend; show up.
  4. (dated, intransitive) To go out; to leave one's home.
  5. (idiomatic, transitive) To extinguish a light or other device.
  6. (idiomatic, intransitive) To become apparent or known, especially (as) it turns out
  7. (idiomatic, transitive) To produce; make.
  8. (intransitive) To leave a road.
  9. (transitive) To remove from a mould, bowl etc.
  10. (transitive) To empty for inspection.
  11. (idiomatic, transitive) To refuse service or shelter; to eject or evict.
  12. (slang, transitive) To convince a person (usually a woman) to become a prostitute.
  13. (slang, transitive) To rape; to coerce an otherwise heterosexual individual into performing a homosexual role.
  14. (transitive) To put (cattle) out to pasture.
  15. (transitive) To convince to vote
  16. (intransitive) To leave one's work to take part in a strike.
  17. (colloquial, intransitive) To get out of bed; get up.

Étymologie (Anglais)

In summary

From Middle English turnen out, tornen out, equivalent to turn + out. The slang and prison terms meaning "to turn into a prostitute, etc." are probably an ellipsis for turn (inside) out (“to flip someone's character or role”).

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