takeouts

Noun

takeout (countable and uncountable, plural takeouts)

1. (Canada, Philippines, US) Food purchased from a takeaway.
2. (Canada, US, countable, informal, rare) Synonym of takeaway (“a restaurant that sells food to be eaten elsewhere”).
   • Have you strolled around King and James lately? McDonald’s, occupying the most prominent location, is flanked by a series of discos, take-outs, coffee shops and doughnuterias—an altogether unappetizing looking collection.1984 October 16, Bea Davids, “There are a few oases for the gourmet”, in Alex Beer, editor, The Spectator, city edition, volume CXXXVIII, number 244, Hamilton, Ont.: Southam Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page...

   Synonyms:

   takeaway

3. (countable) A stone that hits another stone, removing it from play, a takeout shot.
4. (countable) A double of an opponent's bid, intended to invite one's partner to compete in the auction, rather than to penalise one's opponents.
5. (countable) A detailed news segment.
   • Takeouts on important running topics in the news are one way to add a valuable dimension to the evening news. One consequence, however, has been that there are fewer minutes available on the broadcast for hard news out of Washington.1994, Penn Kimball, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Downsizing the news: network cutbacks in the nation's capital (page 19)
6. (countable) A designated point for canoes, rafts, etc. to be removed from the water after use.
   • My favorite is being met at a takeout (near where the fundamentalist Mormons, polygamists,^([sic]) have their compound/school/armory by a guy with a shotgun under his arm and a barely-restrained dog on a leash[)]. "What're you boys doin' on my land?" "We really didn't know it was your land, sir, it...1994 January 14, ROY WEBB, C.A., “industrial river running”, in rec.boats.paddle (Usenet)

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