carryout
3
2.7
- noun
- /ˈkæriˌaʊt/
- US
:
comida para llevar
- His desk was littered with empty snack food bags and carryout containers.
- Chinese carryout
- gourmet carryout
- carryout restaurant
Examples
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While we'll still hit Sher E Punjab for the buffet, this place has replaced it for carryout.
Blog text (24) -
The local carryout sells delicious pizzas and sandwiches to go.
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We had a local restaurant that banned carryout.
Blog text (3) -
You could smell them from blocks away, guiding you to their tiny store, which was carryout only.
Blog text (16) -
We get carryout most Fridays, then I cook something on the weekends when I have more time.
Blog text (19) -
These food items were only served at the church and were not included with the carryout plates delivered to businesses and private residences.
Academic text (1997) -
Hey, the bell just rang; they need fries at the carryout window.
Blog text (2) -
They order Thai carryout and rent videos.
Fiction book (1991) -
Another recommendation I was given recently was to try Curry and Kebab for Indian carryout.
Blog text (24) -
They offer full service and pick-up catering (for 50 or more people), and carryout that you can eat there or take home to your starving friends and family.
Blog text (26)
Synonyms
61
1.5
Food prepared by a restaurant to eat somewhere else
5
1.5
Food you buy to eat somewhere else
3
1.4
Food made by a restaurant or shop to eat somewhere else
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Carryout as a noun names food you take away or the small shop that sells it. Imagine a boxed meal you pick up and carry home, and that picture shows why a carryout is food to eat elsewhere or the place you buy it.