单词 | punch-out |
释义 | punch-outn.adj. North American. A. n. 1. a. A token redeemable at a company store, etc., given as payment to employees. Cf. scrip n.3 5a. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > voucher > specific kind of scrip1818 box top1820 labour note1831 punch-out1899 book token1932 record token1939 slop-chit1946 luncheon voucher1955 dinner card1963 1899 Acts Tennessee xi. 18 Such redemption to be at the face value of said scrip, punchout, coupon, store order or other evidence of indebtedness. 1905 Arizona Republican 11 Feb. 10/2 An act to prohibit the use of scrip or punchouts unless redeemable at any time in cash. 1962 Business Hist. Rev. 36 254 The typical employer paid workers with coupons, script,..or punchouts... This practice has continued in Texas in spite of some regulation provided by law in 1937. 1994 V. A. Zelizer Social Meaning of Money i. 16 ‘Truck acts’ upheld the right of workers to be paid in ‘lawful money’ rather than the scrip, coupons, punchouts, tokens, or trade checks dispensed by ‘persons, firms, corporations, and companies’ often redeemable only at the local company store. b. A hole or perforation made by punching; a piece of material removed by punching a hole. Also: a punch-out model or picture; cf. sense B. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > [noun] > on a surface > types of picture card1707 sand-table1812 inset1881 shadowgraph1886 shadow-picture1889 sand-tray1893 cutout1905 standee1930 punch-out1934 pictograph1937 1934 Lima (Ohio) News 10 July 8/3 (advt.) Sporty three-eyelet tie with punch-outs along the sole and smaller perforations and cut-outs on the upper part of the shoe. 1962 Science 878/1 (advt.) It has scaled punch-outs of Unitized Furniture units... Arrange the punch-outs..until..you have the lab layout that is best suited to your needs. 1973 Valley News (Van Nuys, Calif.) 13 Apr. 4 a/4 Election officials admitted the ballot punch-outs could be opened through the additional handling. 1981 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 26 Nov. (Midway Mall News) 3/3 (advt.) Easy-to-assemble 2-story open-back doll-house includes charming punch-outs of furniture. 2004 Tucson (Arizona) Citizen (Nexis) 26 Oct. 2 a Hanging or dimpled chad—the paper punchouts that became the subject of debate from coast to coast. 2. A boxing match; a fist fight or brawl; = punch-up n. Also in extended use. Cf. punch v.1 7c. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > a fight > with hands or fists fist-fight1603 a rubber at (also of) cuffs1640 chiromachy1659 punch-out1969 1969 News Jrnl. (Mansfield, Ohio) 7 Dec. 5 e/5 Another battle to watch will be the punchout between..Jones and..Vance. Jones is one the..boxers from the Galion. 1973 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 5 Jan. in J. McLeod Oxf. Bk. Canad. Political Anecdotes (1988) 155 A Christmas holiday..included robberies, a punchout, and an attempted break-in and a reprimand from the Jamaican police. 1977 Bucks County (Pa.) Courier Times 14 Aug. c4/2 The sports bigwigs staged a verbal punchout for favored dates and facilities. 1998 Boxing Monthly Apr. 6/1 What about the wear and tear suffered in punch-outs? 3. Baseball = strike-out n. at strike v. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > putting player out > actions K1861 double play1867 assist1877 put-out1882 force-out1896 rundown1908 pickoff1911 strike-out1911 tag1941 punch-out1973 1973 News Jrnl. (Mansfield, Ohio) 16 July 23/5 A shutout is hard enough but to throw a no-hitter with 17 or 18 punch-outs... 1994 T. Boswell Cracking Show iv. i. 68 Strikeouts were his reputation... He'd get ahead in the count, go for the punchout instead of just the out, and end up walking people and getting in jams. 2004 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 13 June iii. 7/5 ‘The punchouts are phenomenal,’ Eckersley said of Gagne's strikeouts. B. adj. Designating a cardboard or paper model, picture, or shape which is loosely attached to a surround so that it may be pressed out by hand, esp. as a children's activity. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > [adjective] > detachable > specific pull-off1875 tear-off1889 punch-out1931 take-off1950 peel-off1960 1931 Decatur (Illinois) Rev. Advertiser 3 Apr. 3/3 (advt.) Smart and c-o-o-l are these punch-out slippers for girls. 1992 P. G. Roop in M. Sosa & S. M. Malcom Science Bks. & Films' Best Bks. for Children 1988–91 18 Activities include a dinosaur identification game, fossil-making with plaster of Paris, ‘punch-out’ dinosaur models, and how to make a geologic time scale. 2000 Chattanooga (Tennessee) Times Free Press (Nexis) 12 Nov. f6 This volume is a paperboard book with lifting flaps and punch-out figures. Designed as a pre-reader, its simple story prompts young children to locate the missing objects. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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