hideout

hideout
hideout (n.) also hide-out, "a hiding place," 1885, American English, from HIDE (Cf. hide) (v.) + OUT (Cf. out). The phrase hide out "conceal (oneself) from the authorities" is attested from 1870, American English (in reference to Northern draft dodgers in the Civil War).

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