Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
far-out \far-out\ adj. strikingly unconventional. [informal]
Syn: kinky, offbeat, quirky, way-out.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Very unusual, eccentric or unconventional
WordNet
Usage examples of "far-out".
Especially in New Haven during this ancient era when even Carnaby Street was just too far-out for all of America northeast of Time Square.
For all such there must be deep and unpatronizing compassion, even a special kind of reverence and respect, because, after all, in them the Self is playing its most far-out and daring game--the game of having lost Itself completely and of being in danger of some total and irremediable disaster.
He's the shithead who Utters the woods with beer cans and poaches a big buck before shooting time, and wastes game, and hangs mounted heads all over his wall, and pays his dues to the NRA, and calls himself a 'sportsman,' for God's sake like hunting was some kind of far-out football game.
Reza was the class clown and cut-up king, sometimes far-out enough to make Celine wonder how he had passed the psychological tests.
He would not have deliberately chosen such a far-out introduction to Capo Julian DiGeorge, couched as it was in such strong overtones of disrespect and humiliation: one does not win Capos and influence Mafiosi by trampling all over their sensitivities, was Bolan's own assessment of his bold faux pas, but the thing had been done, could not be undone, and perhaps it would turn out to be the best of all possible introductions.
He's the shithead who Utters the woods with beer cans and poaches a big buck before shooting time, and wastes game, and hangs mounted heads all over his wall, and pays his dues to the NRA, and calls himself a 'sportsman,' for God's sake — like hunting was some kind of far-out football game.
At the same time, the object was not to become a feature of the general mass-media circus, which reveled in sensationalizing the wild and preposterous and usually represented a fast way to getting a far-out but genuine claim discounted by association.