outers, noun
/ˈaʊtəz/
- Origin:
- Australian EnglishShow more Perhaps from Australian English on the outer, on the outers disadvantaged, excluded (originally with reference to the area outside a race-course enclosure); see first quotation.
slang
The haunts of vagrants and the homeless. Often in the adverbial phrase on the outers, in the open, without shelter. See also outie.
1977 Family Radio & TV 23 Jan. 18I was quickly introduced to the language of their world beyond the fringes of society. They aren’t hoboes, they are outies, and their domain is the outers. I never learned whether this was an abbreviation for outside, out of luck, out of respectability or a combination of all these...Two newcomers to the outers..had been sleeping in parking garages, bus-shelters and behind bushes for only five weeks.
1977 D. Muller Whitey 83She stood almost on top of him for a moment and she didn’t smell all violets — smelled, in fact, as if she had been living on the outers for a couple of weeks.
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