EAT OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eat out mean? 

• EAT OUT (verb)
  The verb EAT OUT has 1 sense:

1. eat at a restaurant or at somebody else's home

  Familiarity information: EAT OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EAT OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eat at a restaurant or at somebody else's home

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

dine out; eat out

Hypernyms (to "eat out" is one way to...):

eat (eat a meal; take a meal)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue eat out

Antonym:

eat in (eat at home)

 Context examples 

“I am making a little trough,” answered the child, “for father and mother to eat out of when I am big.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

At last I desired something to eat out of my own canoe; but he ordered me a chicken, and some excellent wine, and then directed that I should be put to bed in a very clean cabin.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

As soon as she had done this, the frog said, “Put your plate nearer to me, that I may eat out of it.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Now there were thirteen fairies in the kingdom; but as the king and queen had only twelve golden dishes for them to eat out of, they were forced to leave one of the fairies without asking her.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)