INSIDE OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inside out mean? 

• INSIDE OUT (adverb)
  The adverb INSIDE OUT has 2 senses:

1. with the inside facing outward

2. thoroughly; from every perspective

  Familiarity information: INSIDE OUT used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSIDE OUT (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With the inside facing outward

Context example:

she turned the shirt inside out

Sense 2

Meaning:

Thoroughly; from every perspective

Context example:

she knows this town inside out

 Context examples 

The act of turning inside out, upside down, or end-for-end.

(Inversion, NCI Thesaurus)

Jupiter lightning distribution is inside out relative to Earth.

(Juno Solves 39-Year Old Mystery of Jupiter Lightning, NASA)

A fully developed elliptical galaxy is a gas-deficient gathering of ancient stars theorized to develop from the inside out, with a compact core marking its beginnings.

(Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy, NASA)

No, never: we might do what we pleased; ransack her desk and her workbox, and turn her drawers inside out; and she was so good-natured, she would give us anything we asked for.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The packing absorbs drainage from the wound so the tissues can heal from the inside out.

(Packing Material, NCI Thesaurus)

In token of his good faith, Mr. Ford turned two of his pockets inside out. A strip of cardboard fell to the floor from one of them.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Pluto works from the inside out, transforming you similarly to the way a caterpillar becomes a butterfly.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

At this moment, however, the rooms bore every mark of having been recently and hurriedly ransacked; clothes lay about the floor, with their pockets inside out; lock-fast drawers stood open; and on the hearth there lay a pile of grey ashes, as though many papers had been burned.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

That, perhaps, in short, this Prerogative Office of the diocese of Canterbury was altogether such a pestilent job, and such a pernicious absurdity, that but for its being squeezed away in a corner of St. Paul's Churchyard, which few people knew, it must have been turned completely inside out, and upside down, long ago.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)