[onlybeforenoun] using or involving every possible effort and done in a very determined way:
All-out war was almost inevitable now. * an all-out attack on the opposition
all out adverb:
We're going all out to win.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for all-out is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is all-out a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, all-out is tagged as adjective.
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