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Check out   /tʃɛk aʊt/   Listen
Check out

verb
1.
Examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition.  Synonyms: check, check into, check over, check up on, go over, look into, suss out.  "Check out the engine"
2.
Announce one's departure from a hotel.
3.
Be verified or confirmed; pass inspection.  Synonym: check.
4.
Trace.  Synonym: run down.
5.
Record, add up, and receive payment for items purchased.
6.
Withdraw money by writing a check.  Synonym: cheque.
7.
Try to learn someone's opinions and intentions.  Synonyms: feel out, sound out.





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"Check out" Quotes from Famous Books



... less dark Costa Rican, Guatemalteco, Venezuelan, stray islanders from St. Vincent, Trinidad, or Guadalupe, individuals defying classification. But the chief reward for denying myself a holiday were the "back-calls" in the town itself which I was able to check out of my field-book. Many a long-sought negro I roused from his holiday siesta, dashing past the tawdry calico curtains to pound him awake—mere auricular demonstration having only the effect of lulling him into deeper child-like slumber. The surest and often only effective ...
— Zone Policeman 88 - A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and its Workers • Harry A. Franck
... bearded—"barbados"—now and again a more or less dark Costa Rican, Guatemalteco, Venezuelan, stray islanders from St. Vincent, Trinidad, or Guadalupe, individuals defying classification. But the chief reward for denying myself a holiday were the "back-calls" in the town itself which I was able to check out of my field-book. Many a long-sought negro I roused from his holiday siesta, dashing past the tawdry calico curtains to pound him awake—mere auricular demonstration having only the effect of lulling him into deeper ...
— Zone Policeman 88 - A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and its Workers • Harry A. Franck
... an interesting semi-parallel to this term among typographers and printers: When new typefaces are being punch-cut by hand, a 'smoke test' (hold the letter in candle smoke, then press it onto paper) is used to check out new dies. ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0


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