last out

verb (used without object)

1. to go on or continue in time: The festival lasted three weeks.
2. to continue unexpended or unexhausted; be enough: We’ll enjoy ourselves while our money lasts.
3. to continue in force, vigor, effectiveness, etc.: to last for the whole course.
4. to continue or remain in usable condition for a reasonable period of time: They were handsome shoes but they didn’t last.

verb (used with object)

5. to continue to survive for the duration of (often followed by out): They lasted the war in Switzerland.

verb (adverb)

1. (intr) to be sufficient for one’s needshow long will our supplies last out?
2. (tr) to endure or survivesome old people don’t last out the winter

adjective (often prenominal)

1. being, happening, or coming at the end or after all othersthe last horse in the race
2. being or occurring just before the present; most recentlast Thursday
3. last but not least coming last in order but nevertheless important
4. last but one next to last
5. only remainingone’s last cigarette
6. most extreme; utmost
7. least suitable, appropriate, or likelyhe was the last person I would have chosen
8. (esp relating to the end of a person’s life or of the world)
   1. final or ultimatelast rites
   2. (capital)the Last Judgment
9. (postpositive) Liverpool dialect inferior, unpleasant, or contemptiblethis ale is last

adverb

10. after all others; at or in the endhe came last
11. 1. most recentlyhe was last seen in the mountains
    2. (in combination)last-mentioned
12. (sentence modifier) as the last or latest item

noun

13. the last
    1. a person or thing that is last
    2. the final moment; end
14. one’s last moments before death
15. the last thing a person can do (esp in the phrase breathe one’s last)
16. the final appearance, mention, or occurrencewe’ve seen the last of him
17. at last in the end; finally
18. at long last finally, after difficulty, delay, or irritation

verb

1. (when intr, often foll by for) to remain in being (for a length of time); continuehis hatred lasted for several years
2. to be sufficient for the needs of (a person) for (a length of time)it will last us until Friday
3. (when intr, often foll by for) to remain fresh, uninjured, or unaltered (for a certain time or duration)he lasted for three hours underground

noun

1. the wooden or metal form on which a shoe or boot is fashioned or repaired

verb

2. (tr) to fit (a shoe or boot) on a last

noun

1. a unit of weight or capacity having various values in different places and for different commodities. Commonly used values are 2 tons, 2000 pounds, 80 bushels, or 640 gallons

adj., adv.“following all others,” from Old English latost (adj.) and lætest (adv.), superlative of læt (see late). Cognate with Old Frisian lest, Dutch laatst, Old High German laggost, German letzt. Meaning “most recent” is from c.1200. The noun, “last person or thing,” is c.1200, from the adjective. Last hurrah is from the title of Edwin O’Connor’s 1956 novel. Last word “final, definitive statement” is from 1650s. A dying person’s last words so called by 1740. As an adjective, last-minute attested from 1913. Last-chance (adj.) is from 1962. v.“endure, go on existing,” from Old English læstan “to continue, endure,” earlier “accomplish, carry out,” literally “to follow a track,” from Proto-Germanic *laistjan “to follow a track” (cf. Gothic laistjan “to follow,” Old Frisian lasta “to fulfill, to pay (duties),” German leisten “to perform, achieve, afford”), from PIE *leis- “track, furrow.” Related to last (n.), not to last (adj.). Related: Lasted; lasting. n.“shoemaker’s block,” from Old English læste, from last “track, footprint, trace,” from Proto-Germanic *laist- (cf. Old Norse leistr “the foot,” Middle Dutch, Dutch leest “form, model, last,” Old High German leist “track, footprint,” German Leisten “last,” Gothic laistjan “to follow,” Old English læran “to teach”); see last (v.). In addition to the idioms beginning with last

last analysis

last but not least

last fling

last gasp

last laugh, have the

last resort

last straw, the

last word, the

also see:

at last

at the last minute

breathe one’s last

each and every (last one)

famous last words

first and last

head for (the last roundup)

in the final (last) analysis

on one’s last legs

see the last of

stick to one’s last

to the last