eat out
See also: eat-out
English
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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 cunnilingus or anilingus on.
- The lesbian couple ate each other out.see also Thesaurus:oral sex
- (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 cunnilingus
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See also
- eat one's heart out
Anagrams
- ate out, outate, outeat