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Out of bounds   /aʊt əv baʊndz/   Listen
Out of bounds

noun
1.
A line that marks the side boundary of a playing field.  Synonym: sideline.






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"Out of bounds" Quotes from Famous Books



... boys slipped away so as to make for the school and excuse themselves for being out of bounds and going out unseen so early ...
— Glyn Severn's Schooldays • George Manville Fenn

... scalped, and one wounded. The Yellow Moth, Tahoontowhee, and the Grey-Feather went out at night on retaliation bent, but returned with neither trophies nor news, save what we all knew, that the Seneca scouts were now swarming like hornets all around us ready to sting to death anyone who strayed out of bounds. ...
— The Hidden Children • Robert W. Chambers

... can put his foot down, too. The Bramhallites recently organised a very successful punitive raid on the local errand boys, who were getting too uppish, and now he has stopped all "exeats" for the members of Bramhall House. The town is out of bounds. ...
— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond

... said Stalky, flat on his back, staring into the blue. "Even suppose we were miles out of bounds, no one could get at us through this wuzzy, unless he knew the tunnel. Isn't this better than lyin' up just behind the Coll.—in a blue funk every time we had a smoke? ...
— Stalky & Co. • Rudyard Kipling

... the school it became apparent that something had gone wrong. Dr Skinner called the boys together, and with much pomp excommunicated Mrs Cross and Mrs Jones, by declaring their shops to be out of bounds. The street in which the "Swan and Bottle" stood was also forbidden. The vices of drinking and smoking, therefore, were clearly aimed at, and before prayers Dr Skinner spoke a few impressive words about the abominable sin of using bad language. ...
— The Way of All Flesh • Samuel Butler


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