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sellouts

sellouts is the plural of sellout.

Meaning of sellout

Noun

sellout (plural sellouts)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) An action in which principles are compromised for personal gain.
    • A statement by the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights (CLGR), which organized the protest, charged that WPIX's sale of air time to the Anita Bryant Ministries "is a sell-out of the more than one million lesbians and gay residents in the WPIX broadcast service area.1980 April 19, Philip Shehadi, “Bryant Program Sparks Protest”, in Gay Community News, page 3
  2. (idiomatic, informal) A person who sells out, who compromises their principles for financial gain or some other advantage.
    • The rock star used to be hardcore, but now he's just a sellout.
  3. The selling of an entire stock of something, especially tickets for an entertainment or sports event.
    • I performed in front of a sellout crowd.

Questions about sellouts

What is sellouts the plural of?
Sellouts is the plural of sellout.

Words near sellouts in the dictionary

  1. sellotape
  2. sellotaped
  3. sellotapes
  4. sellotaping
  5. sellout
  6. sellouts
  7. sells
  8. sells against the box
  9. sells away
  10. sells bargains
  11. sells by the candle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sellouts (page history and authors); sellout (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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