chill out
verbEtymology From chill and out.
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Slang To relax or take time out; to calm down; reduce or go easy on something.
- Since I'm between projects, I think I'll just chill out.
- I wish I could chill out about the neighbor's barking dog, but it wakes me up every night.
4 more examples
- You should chill out on the fatty foods.
- Chill out, whatcha yelling for?2002 April 23, Avril Lavigne, Lauren Christy, Graham Edwards, Scott Spock, “Complicated”, in Let Go, performed by Avril Lavigne, Arista Records:
- Ed: Chill out. Everyone's all right. / Shaun: Stop telling me to chill out!2004, Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead (motion picture):
- A girl […]telling her friend, “I met her at a party three weeks ago, but now she’s like e-mailing me and I’m just like, chill out, bitch!”2004 January 2, Ariel Levy, “Where the Bois Are”, in New York Magazine:
- Hey, we should chill out together this weekend.