eat out

See also: eat-out

English

Pronunciation

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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

Chinese:
Mandarin: 下館子／下馆子 (xià guǎnzi), 外餐 (wàicān)
Danish: spise ude
Dutch: uit eten
Finnish: syödä ulkona
French: aller au restaurant
German: zum Essen ausgehen
Hungarian: házon kívül eszik/étkezik, étteremben eszik/étkezik
Japanese: 外食する (ja) (がいしょくする, gaishoku suru)
Korean: 외식하다 (oesikhada)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: spise ute (no)
Nynorsk: ete ute
Portuguese: comer fora
Russian: ходи́ть в рестора́н impf (xodítʹ v restorán), сходи́ть в рестора́н pf (sxodítʹ v restorán)
Spanish: comer fuera
Swedish: äta ute

perform cunnilingus

Danish: slikke (da)
Esperanto: frandzi (eo)
Finnish: nuolla (fi)
French: gamahucher (fr)
German: lecken (de)
Russian: де́лать куннили́нгус impf (délatʹ kunnilíngus), сде́лать куннили́нгус pf (sdélatʹ kunnilíngus), выли́зывать (ru) impf (vylízyvatʹ), вы́лизать (ru) pf (výlizatʹ)

Anagrams

ate out, outate, outeat