English
check out
Verb

check out

  1. (intransitive) To confirm and pay for goods and services at a facility (e.g.: supermarket, online store, hotel) when leaving.attention en
    Be sure to check out of the hotel before noon.
    I'm done shopping, so I'll go check out now.
  2. (transitive) 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. (transitive) 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.
    The library assistant was checking people out.
    • 2010, Peterson's, Master the Corrections Officer Exam, Peterson's (ISBN 9780768930306), page 9:
      At 9:30 am, 12 inmates were checked out to the dispensary.
  4. (transitive) To examine, inspect, look at closely, ogle; to investigate; to gather information so as to make a decision.
    He was hanging out at the beach, checking out the young women in bikinis.
    He checked out the rumor, and managed to verify that it was true.
    Check it out! Best prices in town.
    Check this out! They just arrested the Mayor!
    When you're there, check out the Cheddar Cheese Museum! It's a hoot!
    Check us out on the Web at en.wiktionary.org!
  5. (transitive, computing) To obtain source code from a repository.
  6. (intransitive) To become uninterested in an activity and cease to participate in more than a perfunctory manner; to become uncooperative.
  7. (intransitive) To become catatonic or otherwise nonresponsive.
    • 2007 Susan Nathiel, Daughters of Madness: Growing Up and Older With a Mentally Ill Mother, p. 42:
      Even during those years, there would be a lot of times she just checked out. She would be sitting there looking at her nails and she'd just be gone.
  8. (intransitive) To leave in a hurry.
  9. (intransitive, euphemistic, by extension) To die.
  10. (intransitive) 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.
    Their stories checked out.
    • 2013, Steve Suehring, Janet Valade, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript & HTML5 All-in-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons (ISBN 9781118231340), page 459:
      MySQL checks the validity of the account name and password, and checks whether the connection is coming from a host that's allowed to connect [...]. If everything checks out, MySQL accepts the connection.
Antonyms Related terms Translations
  • French: régler sa note (d'hôtel)
  • German: bezahlend verlassen, auschecken
  • Portuguese: pagar a conta, fazer o checkout (from a hotel)
  • Russian: распла́чиваться
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