Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Very unconventional, unusual, or strange.
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- adjective   unusual ,unconventional orstrange 
- adjective US, slang  out of the mainstream ofsociety 
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- adjective informal terms; strikingly unconventional
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Examples
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								Frank's note: So in your view each center should have a slice of really way-out research? mike shupp 
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								We at We Are The Change believe it was a falsified terrorist attack, that the buildings came down with internally placed demolition. why do they have to go so far way-out??? why not just accuse bushco of ignoring the warnings (FACT), maybe even hoping for that “pearl harbor” event to push the neoCON agenda …? much more believable and palatable … 
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								The result of this ideological child abuse is hardly surprising: a creepy weirdness, way-out notions, and poisonous historical perspectives. Matthew Wills: The 2010 Freak Show Matthew Wills 2010 
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								Chartered to think about truly revolutionary, way-out space exploration devices and technologies, Mike Griffin needed to poach the groupâs paltry $4 million annual budget to help absorb Return-to-Flight cost of the Space Shuttle and funding for Constellation-although $4 million wouldnât cover much in the grand scheme of the Shuttle or Constellation budgets. 
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								I got conservative indoctrination back in the 60s and early 70s; nowadays the kids get way-out nutjob indoctrination, but none of it is real education. The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Hayek Belong in High School Economics Classes? 2010 
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								While he's governor, though, he can be treated the way you hate-filled, way-out, unChristian, wife-beating conservatives treat our president, namely call him every name in the book and if he denies anything he's a dirty liar. 
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								The result of this ideological child abuse is hardly surprising: a creepy weirdness, way-out notions, and poisonous historical perspectives. Matthew Wills: The 2010 Freak Show Matthew Wills 2010 
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								The result of this ideological child abuse is hardly surprising: a creepy weirdness, way-out notions, and poisonous historical perspectives. Matthew Wills: The 2010 Freak Show Matthew Wills 2010 
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								Courtesy Taschen The way-out menu at the Ebbtide, Los Angeles, 1959 Full disclosure: For four of the past 10 years, I have been a judge of restaurant graphics for the James Beard Foundation's annual design awards. Nice Spreads Chip Kidd 2011 
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								Even if it causes him to have to make way-out hypotheses about the role of consciousness to make the model complete. 
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