Meaning of nose out | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To find using one's sense of smell.
   informal, transitive
2. To find by searching.
   figuratively, informal, transitive
3. To defeat by a small margin.
   informal, transitive

Examples

“Trained to nose out anything from a hidden handgun to a cache of dynamite, the dogs are employed to check important trains like Rajdhani Express or Ashram Express when they arrive at the platform.”

“In the second place, do sharks really follow ships, when there are corpses on board, more than they do at other times ? and if so, by what particular organisation does a fish in the water continue to nose out the particular origin and direction of an effluvium...”

“We were nosed out for the pennant that year,”

“Rashnaa nosed out Amiable Grace to finish a distant third in a field reduced to seven after the scratches of Comic Marvel and Dance to the Moon...”

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