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"Out out"

96 replies

ValerieVomit · 15/05/2024 19:07

What the hell does this mean? If you go out, you go out. You're out. You don't need to say it twice. (Does this need to go in pedant corner?)

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rmc2001 · 15/05/2024 22:26

To me (22f):
Out: drinks in a bar
Out out: clubbing

DeliberatelyDefiant · 15/05/2024 22:25

You can accidentally go out out.

In fact, usually an out night which ends up as an out out, is better than an out out night .

CharlotteBog · 15/05/2024 22:23

GingerPirate · 15/05/2024 22:18

Out out?
Haven't heard it once once.
😂
Probably a different age bracket.

I am 53 and my son is 25 (the other is 15 and doesn't go out out yet!), and we both use the term.
What age bracket are you?

Screamingabdabz · 15/05/2024 22:18

Nope ‘out’ doesn’t mean shopping!!

Out is a few drinks at the local pub

Out out is a bender and nightclubbing until 4am

GingerPirate · 15/05/2024 22:18

Out out?
Haven't heard it once once.
😂
Probably a different age bracket.

NewMe2024 · 15/05/2024 22:16

Out is a lowkey night out, like a few drinks with jeans on. Out out is getting dressed up, drinking and dancing, back in the wee hours.

Since the pandemic I feel like ‘out out’ is said with awe.

PhilosophicalCheeseSandwich · 15/05/2024 22:14

shellshocks · 15/05/2024 20:13

To those saying 'out' to the shops or walking the dog - that is not the first out of out-out. Where I'm from that's known as 'popping out' :)

Agreed. If I tell someone I was out last night, they won't think I meant to do the big shop.

Ellabellaboo2020 · 15/05/2024 22:13

@CharlotteBog we were actually talking about this in work today ( West Scotland ) my bosses daughter said she could wait to come “ home home “ after living in another city for 4 years lol 😂 what’s weird to me though is my house is my “ home “ but to my DD it’s her “ home home “…….. I think I need to get “ out out “ more tbh 😅

highlo · 15/05/2024 22:12

Sorry I meant "out, out"'here means staying out til clubs close (pubs is just "out" lol)

highlo · 15/05/2024 22:09

ILikePistachios · 15/05/2024 19:12

Out is going to the shop for milk.
Out out is going for a night out, a meal, maybe dancing after.

I wonder if there are regional differences?

Where im from In Scotland "out" is a casual-ish night in the pub, few drinks but nothing wild.
"Out out" is pub then clubbing, boozy night staying out til pubs close.

You could already be in the pub and someone would say "are you going out,out?"

This was hatbwe said in late 90s/early 2000s as I remember it being what we said when o was at uni

maddiemookins16mum · 15/05/2024 22:05

Even I know ‘out, out’ means a big one involving spending too much money and waking up with a half eaten donner on your pillow and a hangover.

LadyHavelockVetinari · 15/05/2024 22:05

It means having a big night out, usually implied that there's lots of drinking.

Gridhopper · 15/05/2024 22:01

‘Out’ definitely doesn’t mean cinema/shop/work where I come from (if someone asked you if you were out at the weekend you wouldn’t say yes if you were just planning a trip to Tesco!) - it’s strictly bars or pubs, but it’s no biggie, no real thought as to what to wear required, home at reasonable time.

Add an extra out and you’re planning an outfit and writing off the next day (well I would be).

I like out out. It means deliberately and wholeheartedly out and it makes perfect sense to me!

Jumpingthruhoops · 15/05/2024 21:49

Going 'out' means just leaving the house, to work, run errands, shopping etc.

Going 'out out' means a big night out and/or partying to some degree.

It's just a bit of fun OP. However, you can just say going out, if it's not for you.

Greengablesfables · 15/05/2024 21:46

aLFIESMA · 15/05/2024 21:45

In- half hearted dusting, making dinner, waiting for a delivery.
In In- PJs, sofa, face mask, box set & brand new bar of Cadburys.

❤️

aLFIESMA · 15/05/2024 21:45

In- half hearted dusting, making dinner, waiting for a delivery.
In In- PJs, sofa, face mask, box set & brand new bar of Cadburys.

Newgolddream70 · 15/05/2024 21:38

I've stopped going out out now. I have every intention but my bed starts calling at about half 10 🤣

OchonAgusOchonOh · 15/05/2024 21:34

mrsdineen2 · 15/05/2024 19:11

Apparently it's from a Mickey Flanagam comedy routine almost 20 years ago.

Edited

It's way older than that. We used it when I was in my teens/20's and I'm 59 now. It meant going out clubbing whereas going out meant just going to the pub.

Standard question of an evening was are you going out or out out.

shellshocks · 15/05/2024 20:13

To those saying 'out' to the shops or walking the dog - that is not the first out of out-out. Where I'm from that's known as 'popping out' :)

shellshocks · 15/05/2024 20:07

'Out out' came long before Micky Flanagan.

When I was young, out - was pub/bar/local - out out meant going on somewhere like a club or a bigger planned night.

You could look at it another way - out, home by 11ish, out out - much later one!

Stibble · 15/05/2024 20:07

If you ban it we’ll have to revert to ‘avin it laarge’. Is that really what you want?

CelesteCunningham · 15/05/2024 20:03

Also Irish and also used it forever.

Out: dinner, cinema, pub, maybe a nice bar. Home by midnight, functional to normal the next day.

Out out: dressed up, very nice cocktail bar, probably dancing (hence I don't do it any more as hate clubs). Home (long) after midnight, dying the next day.

I think Pedants' Corner would love to the richness of the language in this one rather than judgemental OP!

@CharlotteBog years since I heard home home! Probably because I'm old enough now that home is home home and home home is "mum's place". Another great phrase.

anyonesellinganark · 15/05/2024 19:57

Going out for milk is 'popping out'
Going to the pub/cinema/casual dinner is 'going out'
Getting dressed up for a proper night on the town and going clubbing is 'going out out'
Micky Flanagan says it better!

TruthThatsHardAsSteel · 15/05/2024 19:57

mrsdineen2 · 15/05/2024 19:11

Apparently it's from a Mickey Flanagam comedy routine almost 20 years ago.

Edited

Correct

Pin0cchio · 15/05/2024 19:55

One glass of wine after work: out

Getting dressed up for a big club night, meal in posh restaurant, theatre tickets etc: out out

Everyone understands this. Surely.