Citations:outside

sense: extreme

• 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, →ISBN, page 20:

  He had finished three bottles, though I couldn't have been gone more than twenty minutes at the outside.

having one parent who is not the other parent's current spouse

• 1992, Lisa Douglass, The power of sentiment: love, hierarchy, and the Jamaican family elite (Westview Pr):

  Several genealogies show that couples continued to have children until they had a son. One businessman took his outside son born before marriage into his family to avoid facing the finis familiae that comes when there are no male heirs.

• 2003, Marcia King-Gamble, This Way Home, Kensington Books (→ISBN), page 17:

  The men ate in silence until Ned said, “Malcolm left his place to his outside son, a fine boy from what I can tell. Bigtime artist he is, but he's having troubles living in that house.”

• 2018, Michael Fountain, Autumn Leaves, AuthorHouse (→ISBN):

  “Grandpa and father feared my brothers would tell mother. And daddy did not want mother to know about his outside son. He feared she might divorce him or cause trouble for Melisa and Phillip,” John explained.

not residing with the (family of the) parent in question)

• 1974, Michael Garfield Smith, The Plural Society in the British West Indies, Univ of California Press (→ISBN), page 235:

  But the terms normally used to distinguish a man's resident and absent children are "inside" and "outside," the reference being to the home where the common father dwells. Only rarely will a man describe his "inside" children born out of out of wedlock as "lawful,"

outside parent

• 2004, Ian Keen, Aboriginal Economy & Society: Australia at the Threshold:

  I described marriage gifts in Chapter 6. A man's obligations towards his future wife's father came into play after formalisation of the betrothal. He also had to feed his prospective mother-in-law, who was his 'outside' father's younger sister [...]

• 2009, Robert I. Lerman, Theodora Ooms, Young Unwed Fathers: Changing Roles and Emerging Policies, page 133:

  Boys who had contact and were strongly attached to their nonresidential fathers were more likely to report a teen birth than girls who had a close tie with their outside father. Since boys are overrepresented among children with a strong bond to [...]