eat out

present singular third person eats out · participle present eating out · past ate out · participle past eaten out

1. intransitiveTo dine at a restaurant or such public place.

   Jacky wanted Korean barbecue, but his mom didn't want to eat out.

   2 more examples

   (Sandra) I'm hungry, Dad. When will you finally make dinner? (Dad) Later. I have to finish this level first. (Sandra) Daddy! I'm hungry now! (Dad) Alright. here, Go eat out.

   2008 November 24, Powree and Oliver Knörzer, “Video Game Addiction”, in Sandra and Woo (webcomic)

   The whole region is dotted with restaurants very much like Taylor Grocery (once called fish camps) that sell only fried fish, and when I was growing up, the announcement that we were eating out meant we were going to the fish camp.

   2009, Damon Fowler, Classical Southern Cooking, page 124

   Synonyms: go out to eat

2. transitiveTo erode or encroach upon by gradually consuming.
3. slangtransitivevulgarTo perform cunnilingus or anilingus.

   The lesbian couple ate each other out.

   1 more example

   I mean, is it as bad as eating her pussy out? No, but it's the same fuckin' ballpark.

   1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Vincent (John Travolta)

4. slangtransitiveTo reprimand severely.

   He will eat me out if he hears I ate his girlfriend out.

5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see eat, out.