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Phrase(s): cancel someone out of something [and] cancel someone out
1. to eliminate someone from something (as from a list of names). • We had to cancel them out. • We canceled out all the people who did not show up. 2. Sl. to eliminate someone; to kill someone. • The drug lord threatened to cancel out his former partner for testifying against him.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs