takeout

alternative take-out

1. CanadaUSnot comparable(Of food) intended to be eaten off the premises from which it was bought.

   Synonyms: takeaway, carryout, to go, takeaways, grab and go

plural takeouts · alternative take-out

1. CanadaPhilippinesUScountableuncountableFood purchased from a takeaway.
2. CanadaUScountableinformalrareSynonym of takeaway (“a restaurant that sells food to be eaten elsewhere”).

   Investigators visited dozens of Chinese restaurants, takeouts and buffets.

   2005 May 12, Jennifer 8. Lee, “As the cookie crumbles, winners galore in lottery”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2019

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   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 D6, column 3

   I was just driving by the wharfs out in Eastern Passage today and I noticed all the restaurants/takeouts there. Are any of them good to eat at ?

   2007 June 13, Why Me ?, “Eastern passage restaurants ?”, in hfx.general (Usenet)

   The number of takeouts that have grubby floors is astonishing. Shut them down.

   2009 October 4, hellicopter, “Land tax will do little”, in nz.general (Usenet)

   Synonyms: takeaway

3. countableball gamesA stone that hits another stone, removing it from play, a takeout shot.
4. countablebridgeA 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. countablebroadcastingA 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. countableA designated point for canoes, rafts, etc. to be removed from the water after use.

   We are NOT whitewater canoeists, so I'm interested in an easy part of the river that would take about 3 days to float and would put us at a takeout where we could do about 3 days of hiking.

   1996 March 22, Evan Stepp, “Buffalo National River”, in rec.backcountry (Usenet)

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   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 was take out here or go over a 20- foot diversion dam." Talked our way out of that one but I haven't run that stretch since.

   1994 January 14, ROY WEBB, C.A., “industrial river running”, in rec.boats.paddle (Usenet)

   The campsite starts at the 'official' takeout, after the 'No Paddling Past This Point' type signs. One of the best kept sectrets^([sic]) seemed to be that if you paddled down to just above the campiste^([sic]) bridge there was a takeout where the WCA bus would pick you up and shuttle you to the top.

   1998 May 28, Charlie Wood, “Tryweryn Party w/e”, in uk.rec.boats.paddle (Usenet)