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What does out-and-out mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word out-and-out? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Complete, utter.
  2. (animal husbandry) thoroughly cross-bred; a breeding strategy esp. with poultry where new roosters are circulated yearly to maintain a mongrel flock.
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By and large, he appears to be on top of things, but there are times when they play like out-and-out scatterbrains.
Because by my reckoning, this is the first out-and-out Total Stinker of this year's selection.
Because the movie is too lazy to set up some grifts, Reilly and Luna are established as out-and-out thieves.
Maybe attacker is not the right word to describe Totti, he is an out-and-out goalscorer, a pure striker.
We don't get a whole lot of out-and-out censorship here, but it's not for a lack of the basic human urge to silence people we disagree with.
They are superbly rich, as chocolatey, gooey and indulgent as any fantasising slimmer, or out-and-out greedy guts, could ever wish for.

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