inside-outadj.
/ˌɪnsʌɪdˈaʊt/, U.S. /ˌɪnsaɪdˈaʊt/ΚΠ
1850 New Monthly Mag. May 111 With a nudge of the elbow, and an inside-out squint of his eyes.
2. Having the inner surface turned outwards; inverted, reversed. Also figurative.In quot. 1893: designating a process in which the inner surface is turned outwards.
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1893 Temple Bar May 31 These curious gloves..have two thumbs, so that by an inside-out process they can get another pair of gloves when the palm becomes worn out.
1932 Michigan Technic Apr. 6/2 This force is all that prevents the blades from pointing straight up like an inside-out umbrella.
1971 Chicago Daily Defender 24 June 24/3 (caption) Burger in the round, an inside-out version of stuffed green pepper.
1993 B. L. Finlay & B. Miller in A. M. Galaburda Dyslexia & Developm. i. 1 The cortex is said to develop in an ‘inside-out’ sequence.
2009 New Yorker 7 Sept. 25/1 Brian Rosenworcel..was wearing gray Crocs and an inside-out T-shirt.
3. Tennis. Designating a cross-court forehand shot played on a ball struck to the player's backhand (or vice versa), which is set up by the player running across the trajectory of the ball.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > lawn tennis > [adjective] > types of stroke or ball
unreturnable1740
boasted1878
volleyed1878
overhand1881
back-handed1889
forehand1889
forehanded1889
Lawford1893
overhead1904
undercut1920
kicking1924
overarm1929
two-fisted1960
sliced1971
inside-out1977
inside-in1999
1977 Washington Post 15 Mar. d5/1 Cracking an ‘inside-out’ backhand past Rahim on the set point.
1996 Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minnesota) (Nexis) 27 Oct. 10 c A scorching inside-out shot into the corner.
2014 Daily Tel. 2 July (Sport section) 6/3 (caption) Kyrgios hits a thumping inside-out forehand to Raonic's weaker wing, the backhand.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1850