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out West

Parf of speech: Adverb, OED Year: 1834, OED Evaluation: N/A

Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker 2: Depression area. Speaker: (inc.) as if you speak (inc.) like when Dolores speaks about the depression out west. They were hit so much harder than (inc.)
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Do you know when he came to Canada? Speaker: Well a few years before that. I don't know just what year, no. Interviewer: What did he do when he first came here? Speaker: When he first came here he went out west and he wanted ah, to be in the same type of business but he ended up as a cowboy for a short time which he didn't like. It wasn't long 'till he come back to Ontario.
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.
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Speaker: We used to know every name of the places over in Canada and Massey-Harris they were Toronto, Brantford, Canada, you-know it was written right on the machinery. Interviewer: So that's how you learned your Canadian geography? Speaker: You-bet-you we did and out west we knew all the names of the towns out west, Swift-Current, Medicine-Hat. We thought that was comical names and we could rhyme them right off.
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.
They were nice fellows too you-know. Smartly dressed, on Sundays they'd come down with their civilian clothes on you-know, there weren't any, just as neat as a pin. They weren't rough either, they were from out west some of them, Saskatchewan and Montreal, French speaking fellows from Montreal, they were all working there. We had a great time with the French fellows.
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.
ExampleMeaning
You-see, the government give, ah- anybody that wanted to go farm, they'd give them a hundred acres of land, free grasses if they'd farm it. Or if you were married they'd give you two-hundred acres, ah, and you had to do the assessment work. Same as out west, they had to, ah, prove that they were going to farm. They had to build a house and a barn and crop a certain amount of land in three years I think before they got their final title.
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.
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Speaker: With moose hunters an awful lot of us come over moose-hunting. Interviewer: Mm. What state are they- ? Speaker: W-- well it's states just along the border. New-York-State and down across. ... They don't come too deep down. Same out west you-see.
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.
ExampleMeaning
... we went over where the barns were that you can't see where the barns were at all. The time the barn burnt, that's when we were out west. Did both the barns go at the same time?
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.
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... one of Uncle-Larry's um- Un-- Uncle-Larry's oldest girl died just in December I think it was too, she died just before the cousin out west you-see.
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.
They were having an auction sale, you-see, to sell off the stuff because Uncle-Daniel was going back out west and ah he wanted to be rid of the stuff.
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.
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It was about a bunch of kids in I-dunno, from like Atlantic Canada, who basically just got bored and decided to go on a road trip across the country and the idea was that they were going-to drive out west and then when they hit the west-coast they were all going-to kill themselves. So, this was the- the premise of the movie. And along the way they do all kinds of crazy stuff and have all kinds of adventures.
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.
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But the hotels had their own bands. I've forgotten who played there now. I think it was Mark- Kenny from out west, from Banff. And um, so they pretty well played there. That was a hotel band. Like a resident band.
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.
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So basically as far as I can tell, my father was actually born in that store. My mother was born out West, in Saskatchewan, so- and I have visited there, that's different. That's different. They're very- but that's a German community too 'cause of the settlers yeah yeah.
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.
Um, I eventually landed up at- at the time, ah- at the time it was this high-end food store that did high-end catering which is very cool. It was David-Woods, which doesn't exist- actually he went out West and has a lovely natural foods farm there. He's doing great. Anyway I worked there. It was great, I learned a lot. I ate the best food you can imagine ...
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.
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Then he got uh, two little Western horses, from out West the're- I 've forgotten what they called them, but they were shorter and roun-- they were quite strong, and he bred this one and then we had a little colt ...
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Have you been out West? Speaker: Yeah, I've been out West, I stayed in Vancouver for a little while, my ex and I drove actually from here, all the way out to Vancouver, it was a great drive, it was so much fun ...
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.
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I was born in Saskatchewan but I moved here when I was about two or three years old so any- any memories I have are of Toronto. Um, briefly lived out of Toronto in Edmonton and out west in Alberta you-know for a couple years and-
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.
I am from out west, right, as I've told you, and when we were- we used to go out all the time, and I told you I lived for two years in Alberta, right and- in the northern part of Alberta actually, right near the Yukon, huh?
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.
... just last week they had a big blizzard out in Alberta. ... Yeah, thirty centimetres or something in- in Calgary and Winnipeg and- so you-know lot of these places out West are you-know just very similar to here in a lot of ways except their winters are that much longer you-know, that much more- it's really depressing actually.
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.
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Interviewer: Do you have more than one daughter? Speaker: Two. Yeah, and the other one's in grade- just finishing grade-ten. ... So she'll be going to university in a few years. Interviewer: wow. And they're out west. Speaker: They're out west. Victoria. Saanich.
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.
Ah, I'm not going to the Jazz-festival 'cause I'm going out west. Um and I'm not a big jazz fan- ... but I will be going to the Jazz-festival at the Beaches in about three weeks.
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.