verb. (American).—To boycott; to send to Coventry.
1833. S. KERCHEVAL, A History of the Valley of Virginia. The punishment for idleness, lying, dishonesty, and ill fame generally, was that of ‘HATING the offender OUT,’ as they expressed it…. It commonly resulted in the reformation or banishment of the person against whom it was directed…. If [a man] did not do [his share of the public service], he was ‘HATED OUT as a coward.’
