bout

Plural: bouts

Noun

• A short period of intense activity; a contest or match.
• (sports) a division during which one team is on the offensive
• a period of illness
  • "a bout of fever"
  • "a bout of depression"
• a contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers)
• an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
• A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant, like an illness.
• A boxing match.
• An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
• A roller derby match.
• A fighting competition.
• A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.
• The going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland, across a field.

Verb

• To contest a bout.

Prep

• Aphetic form of about.

Examples

• a bout of drought
• a coughing bout
• a long bout of the flu
• Maddy is bout to get beat up!
• They're talking bout you!
• This BOUT of Scrabble was intense, with both players neck and neck until the end.

Synonyms

binge, bust, round, tear, turn, attack

Anagrams of bout