check%20out
verb
- 1
To confirm and pay for goods and services at a facility (e.g.: supermarket, online store, hotel) when leaving.
“Be sure to check out of the hotel before noon.”
- 2
To withdraw (an item), as from a library, and have the withdrawal recorded.
“He checked his favorite mystery out for the twenty-third time.”
- 3
To record (someone) as leaving the premises or as taking something therefrom, as from a library or shop.
“The desk clerk checked out the family that had been staying in room 322.”
- 4
To examine, inspect, look at closely, ogle; to investigate; to gather information so as to make a decision.
“Check it out! Best prices in town.”
- 5
To obtain source code from a repository.
- 6
To become uninterested in an activity and cease to participate in more than a perfunctory manner; to become uncooperative.
- 7
To become catatonic or otherwise nonresponsive.
- 8
To leave in a hurry.
- 9
(by extension) To die.
- 10
To prove (after an investigation) to be the case, or to be in order.
“The first two leads check out; I'll assume the third one is also valid.”
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