go out

Verb

go out (third-person singular simple present goes out, present participle going out, simple past went out, past participle gone out)

1. (intransitive) To leave, especially a building.
   • Please go out through the back door.
2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To leave one's abode to go to public places, especially for recreation or entertainment.
   • They were going to stay in and read, but instead went out shopping.
   • On their first date they went out to dinner at a restaurant.

   Antonyms:

   stay in

3. (intransitive) To be eliminated from a competition.
   • Our team went out in the third round.
4. (intransitive) To be turned off or extinguished.
   • The lights went out while I was taking a shower.
   • The match at once went out and Nickle only just saved himself from screaming.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London
5. (intransitive) To go unconscious; to pass out.
   • When I hit him, he hit the floor and went out.
6. (intransitive) To be drained from; to disappear from somebody.
   • All the fizz has already gone out of the election campaign.
   • After diagnosis, all his confidence went out of him.
7. (intransitive) To become extinct, to expire.
   • And cold the poor man lies at night, / And so goes out the year.1922 October, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, “[Poem] XXVIII”, in Last Poems, London: Grant Richards Ltd., →OCLC, page 54
8. (intransitive) To die.
   • As much as you may want to plan your funeral, you can't control when you go out.
   • A motorcycle cop led the funeral procession & with all the cabs pulling up the rear we were 5–6 blocks long. The cops even blocked off streets for us. The guy went out like a goddamn mayor.1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
9. (intransitive) To discard or meld all the cards in one's hand.
   • Leon made two canastas, then went out by melding treys.
10. (intransitive) To pass out of fashion; be on the wane.
    • He thought Nehru jackets went out in the late seventies.
    • And ‘blubbing’ . . . Blubbing went out with ‘decent’ and ‘ripping’. Mind you, not a bad new language to start up. 1920s schoolboy slang could be due for a revival.1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section II, page 24

    Antonyms:

    come in

11. (intransitive) To have a romantic relationship, one that involves going out together on dates; to be a couple.
    • They've been going out for three years now, but still live apart.
    • Jack and Susan are going out.
12. (intransitive) To have a romantic relationship (with someone).
    • Do you think she will go out with anyone this year?