outskirts

Etymology 1

From out- + skirt.

noun

1. The area surrounding a city or town; suburb.
   He lived on the outskirts of Paris for a time.
   More than 100 men, wearing white T-shirts and wielding sticks and clubs, stormed the station in Yuen Long, on Hong Kong’s northwestern outskirts, and assaulted people, including passengers on a subway car. July 23, 2021, Vivian Wang, Joy Dong, Tiffany May, “Men Who Beat Hong Kong Protesters in Mob Attack Are Sentenced to Prison”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-23, Asia Pacific

Etymology 2

noun

1. plural of outskirt

verb

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of outskirt