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sellout

sellout

11 3.3
An event where all tickets are sold
  • noun
  • /ˈsɛlˌaʊt/
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  • The 107,818 in attendance represented Penn State's first sellout of the season.
  • sellout crowd
  • consecutive sellouts
  • sellout game

Examples

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • After a week of intense promotion, the event was declared a sellout as tickets quickly vanished.

  • The band's reunion tour is bound to be a sellout, given their devoted fanbase.

Synonyms

complete sellout
vssellout
2.8

An event that sells all its tickets

is the common term without the extra emphasis on completeness

Compounds

An event that sells all its tickets

Surface Forms

sellout singular
sellouts plural

Morphology

sellout = sell + out (transparent) = sell + out

The meaning is a direct result of selling all available tickets or items out.

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.