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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



... 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 child-like ...
— Zone Policeman 88 - A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and its Workers • Harry A. Franck
... are a hundred and fifty miles from the sea here. Our camp in a round pocket to-night. The canyon bends sharp to the right. Can see one mountain ahead, but not the big range. John making a map all the time. Stories told us no use this far; things don't check out. ...
— Young Alaskans in the Far North • Emerson Hough
... a screamer. If you test it as a unit, you'll ruin it. So you test it a part at a time. All the parts check out nicely because the test mechanisms are ...
— Hanging by a Thread • Gordon Randall Garrett
... uncertainty of everything. You haven't been able to rest because you have been raging and fuming so at unavoidable conditions—you have been fighting facts. And it's all so useless, Steve, between you and me—everything would check out on zero if we'd just come out ...
— Spacehounds of IPC • Edward Elmer Smith
... the old lady the only unoccupied room in the hotel—one with a private bath adjoining. The next morning, when the guest was ready to check out, ...
— Best Short Stories • Various
... to borrow a Geiger counter at Wright Field, then check out a camera. I called my wife and asked her to pack a few clothes and bring them out to me. Bob got the equipment, ran home and packed a bag, and in two hours he and I and our two pilots, Captain Bill Hoey and Captain David ...
— The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects • Edward Ruppelt


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