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Definition 2024
check_out
check out
See also: checkout
English
Verb
check out (third-person singular simple present checks out, present participle checking out, simple past and past participle checked out)
- (intransitive) To confirm and pay for goods and services at a facility (e.g.: supermarket, online store, hotel) when leaving.
- Be sure to check out of the hotel before noon.
- I'm done shopping, so I'll go check out now.
- (transitive) To withdraw (an item), as from a library, and have the withdrawal recorded.
- He checked his favorite mystery out for the twenty-third time.
- (transitive) To record (someone) as leaving the premises or as taking something therefrom, as from a library or shop.
- The desk clerk checked out the family that had been staying in room 322.
- The library assistant was checking people out.
- (transitive) To examine, inspect, look at closely, ogle; to investigate.
- He was hanging out at the beach, checking out the young women in bikinis.
- He checked out the rumor, and managed to verify that it was true.
- Check it out! Best prices in town.
- Check this out! They just arrested the Mayor!
- When you're there, check out the Cheddar Cheese Museum! It's a hoot!
- Check us out on the Web at http://en.wiktionary.org!
- (transitive) (computer science): To obtain source code from a repository.
- (intransitive) To become disinterested in an activity and cease to participate in more than a perfunctory manner; to become uncooperative.
- 2010, S. Greggory Johnson III, The Black Professoriat: Negotiating a Habitable Space in the Academy, p. 189:
- The purpose of this exercise was to ignite reactions from students, but over the few years I used it, it backfired, culminating in a situation where I lost a significant number of the white students, who just "checked out" for the rest of the semester.
- 2010, S. Greggory Johnson III, The Black Professoriat: Negotiating a Habitable Space in the Academy, p. 189:
- (intransitive) To become catatonic or otherwise nonresponsive.
- 2007 Susan Nathiel, Daughters of Madness: Growing Up and Older With a Mentally Ill Mother, p. 42:
- Even during those years, there would be a lot of times she just checked out. She would be sitting there looking at her nails and she'd just be gone.
- 2007 Susan Nathiel, Daughters of Madness: Growing Up and Older With a Mentally Ill Mother, p. 42:
- (intransitive) To leave in a hurry.
- (intransitive, euphemistic, by extension) To die.
- (intransitive) To prove (after an investigation) to be the case / in order.
- The first two leads check out; I'll assume the third one is also valid.
- Their stories checked out.
Antonyms
- (most senses): check in
Translations
to pay when leaving
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to withdraw (an item) from a library etc., and have the withdrawal recorded
to record someone as leaving
to examine, inspect, look at closely
to obtain computer source code from a source code control system
to leave in a hurry
to die