sellout
- noun
- /ˈsɛlˌaʊt/
- The 107,818 in attendance represented Penn State's first sellout of the season.
- sellout crowd
- consecutive sellouts
- sellout game
Examples
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There was noise and energy from a sellout crowd, 10 ties and 16 lead changes at the Patriot Center.
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Today's game is a sellout.
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Beautiful Sunday afternoon, decisive game five, and it was not even a sellout.
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Iowa is on a run of 23 straight sellouts, including the five games this season.
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From the late 1950s to the late 1980s, all home games were sellouts.
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Most of these games are sellouts, and the crowd is a knowledgeable hockey crowd and loud to boot.
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The theater's latest production was a complete sellout, with all tickets purchased in advance.
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After a week of intense promotion, the event was declared a sellout as tickets quickly vanished.
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The band's reunion tour is bound to be a sellout, given their devoted fanbase.
Synonyms
An event that sells all its tickets
Compounds
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Morphology
Etymology
Sellout comes from the simple idea of sell + out, meaning you have sold everything and nothing is left. So a sellout is an event where all the tickets or items are sold.