mess out

[Jonathan Lighter]

This means "butt out," but I've never seen it before. In fact, it took a moment before I could understand it.

  2007 _Military History_ (May) 19: They'd just as soon a bunch of political wannabes presuming to speak for them would mess out.

  The author, Philip Beidler, is Professor of English at the Univrsity of Alabama.

  JL




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