eat out
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See also: eat-out
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: ēt out, IPA(key): /it aʊt/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Verb
eat out (third-person singular simple present eats out, present participle eating out, simple past ate out, past participle eaten out)
- (intransitive) To dine at a restaurant or such public place.
- Jacky wanted Korean barbecue, but his mom didn't want to eat out.
- 2009, Damon Fowler, Classical Southern Cooking, page 124:
- The whole region is dotted with restaurants very much like Taylor Grocery (once called fish camps) that sell only fried fish, and when I was growing up, the announcement that we were eating out meant we were going to the fish camp.
- (transitive) To erode or encroach upon by gradually consuming.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To perform oral sex on.
- The lesbian couple ate each other out.
- 1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Vincent (John Travolta):
- I mean, is it as bad as eating her pussy out? No, but it's the same fuckin' ballpark.
- (transitive, slang) To reprimand severely.
- He will eat me out if he hears I ate his girlfriend out.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see eat, out.
Synonyms
- (to dine at a restaurant): go out to eat
Translations
dine at a restaurant; to eat out from home
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perform oral sex
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