1.0 link Rainbow Dash Network http://rainbowdash.net/ Narwhal (narwhal) http://rainbowdash.net/narwhal http://rainbowdash.net/notice/3944303 @<span class="vcard"><a href="http://rainbowdash.net/user/32751" class="url" title="MetalTao"><span class="fn nickname mention">metaltao</span></a></span> In the phrase &quot;light out&quot; the word &quot;light&quot; is being used as a verb to <i>remove</i> the light from a source like a lantern or candle (which in retrospect seems kind of counter-intuitive, but it's actually just because it's a warped version of &quot;turn out the lights&quot;). In the phrase &quot;lights out&quot;, it is often a shortened version of &quot;knocking someone's lights out&quot;, as in knocking someone out. Though &quot;lights out&quot; can be used with the former meaning of &quot;light out&quot;, so I don't know if I'd say the two have completely different meanings as much as one possess specific connotations unique from the other.