turn out

verb17

1. •
   to have a particular result or quality at the end of a process or series of events

   • I had hoped our first meeting would turn out better.
   • The truth turned out to be more depressing than we thought.
2. •
   to end with the good result that someone hoped for

   • I'm afraid the cake didn't turn out.
3. •
   to become clear that something is true, often in a way that surprises people

   • It turns out that he just made a lucky guess.
4. •
   to come to an event, often together with many other people

   • Hundreds of people turned out to see the parade.
5. •
   To convince to vote
6. •
   to switch off a light or another device

   • Turn out the lights before you leave.
7. •
   to produce things or people, often in large numbers and at a steady rate

   • The bakery turns out three hundred pies each day.
8. •
   To remove from a mould, bowl etc.

   • Turn out the dough onto a board and shape it.
9. •
   To empty for inspection.

   • Please turn out your pockets.
   • The security guard asked everyone to turn out their bags.
10. •
    to force someone to leave the home, hotel or other place where they are staying

    • The hotel staff hastened to turn out the noisy drunk.
    • The poor family were turned out of their lodgings at only an hour's notice.
11. •
    (informal) to get up from bed
12. •
    (old-fashioned) to leave one's home to go somewhere
13. •
    to leave the place where one works in order to join a strike
14. •
    To leave a road.

    • Turn out at the third driveway.
15. •
    to put cattle or other farm animals into a pasture, a field of grass where they feed
16. •
    (slang) to persuade someone to become a prostitute and then control their work as their pimp

    • He then turned her out onto the streets of Chicago with a quota to meet: $500 for a night's work. — 2008
17. •
    (slang) to rape someone, especially to force a person who is not gay into sex with someone of the same sex