outskirts

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈaʊtskɝts/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈaʊtskɜːts/

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• Hyphenation: out‧skirts

From out- +‎ skirt.

outskirts pl (plural only)

1. The area surrounding a city or town; suburb.

   He lived on the outskirts of Paris for a time.

   • 2021 July 23, Wang, Vivian; Joy Dong; Tiffany May, “Men Who Beat Hong Kong Protesters in Mob Attack Are Sentenced to Prison”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-23, Asia Pacific‎:

     More than 100 men, wearing white T-shirts and wielding sticks and clubs, stormed the station in Yuen Long, on Hong Kong’s northwestern outskirts, and assaulted people, including passengers on a subway car.

outskirts

1. plural of outskirt

outskirts

1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of outskirt