trackout

trackout

English

Noun

trackout (countable and uncountable, plural trackouts)

1. (uncountable) Traces of material carried out of an area as a result of sticking to clothing, vehicles, etc.
   • 2008, Construction Labor Report (volume 54, issues 2661-2684, page 2008)

     EPA alleged that the firm failed to install trackout control devices at its construction sites that would remove particulate matter from vehicles. It also failed to perform immediate cleanup of dirt tracked out 50 feet beyond the site […]

2. (countable, film, television) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
   • 1966, Nation (issues 185-209, page 133)

     […] the programme-devisers proceeded to obfuscate his words by visual gimmickry — laborious trackouts to accommodate superimposed graphics and slogans; stills and film cuts which were either banal or funny.

   • 1977, John Aquino, Film in the Language Arts Class (page 14)

     […] Alfred Hitchcock's distorted-vision effect employing a trackout combined with a forward zoom in Vertigo (1958).