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lunching out

lunching out is the present participle and gerund of lunch out.

Meaning of lunch out

Verb

lunch out (third-person singular simple present lunches out, present participle lunching out, simple past and past participle lunched out)

  1. (informal, intransitive) To have lunch either outdoors or in a restaurant; to dine out for lunch.
    • Let's lunch out today.
    Antonyms:
    lunch in
  2. (intransitive, slang) To be distracted, spacey or out to lunch, often as a result of cannabis use.
    • Dude is totally lunching out right now.

Questions about lunching out

What is lunching out the present participle and gerund of?
Lunching out is the present participle and gerund of lunch out.

Words near lunching out in the dictionary

  1. luncheterias
  2. lunchette
  3. lunchettes
  4. lunching
  5. lunching in
  6. lunching out
  7. lunchings
  8. lunchladies
  9. lunchlady
  10. lunchless
  11. lunchlessness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lunching out (page history and authors); lunch out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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