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bout

UK/ˈbaʊt/ US/bʌʊt/ common

noun

1.

(sports) a period of play during which one team is on the offensive

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2.

a boxing match

  • “the fight was on television last night”
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3.

an occasion for excessive eating or drinking

  • “they went on a bust that lasted three days”
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Origin

From Middle English bout, bowt, bught (whence also modern English bought (“bend, curve”)), probably from Old English *buht (“bend, turn”), an unrecorded variant of Old English byht (“a bend, curve”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“a bend”). Equivalent to bow + -t. Doublet of bight and bought. Compare Dutch bocht and German Bucht. For the sense development compare bender.

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