takeout
/ˈteɪkaʊt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.94 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
(Of food) intended to be eaten off the premises from which it was bought.
Canadian usage; American usage
noun
Synonym of takeaway (“a restaurant that sells food to be eaten elsewhere”).
Canadian usage; American usage; Countable; Informal
Example Sentences
- "Have you strolled around King and James lately? McDonald’s, occupying the most prominent location, is flanked by a series of discos, take-outs, coffee shops and doughnuterias—an altogether unappetizing looking collection."
- "Investigators visited dozens of Chinese restaurants, takeouts and buffets."
- "I was just driving by the wharfs out in Eastern Passage today and I noticed all the restaurants/takeouts there. Are any of them good to eat at ?"
- "The number of takeouts that have grubby floors is astonishing. Shut them down."
- "Takeouts on important running topics in the news are one way to add a valuable dimension to the evening news. One consequence, however, has been that there are fewer minutes available on the broadcast for hard news out of Washington."
- "My favorite is being met at a takeout (near where the fundamentalist Mormons, polygamists,^([sic]) have their compound/school/armory by a guy with a shotgun under his arm and a barely-restrained dog on a leash[)]. "What're you boys doin' on my land?" "We really didn't know it was your land, sir, it was take out here or go over a 20- foot diversion dam." Talked our way out of that one but I haven't run that stretch since."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈteɪkaʊt/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food.
Inflected Forms
take-out (alternative)
takeouts (plural)