Definitions

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  • noun US Food that is intended to be eaten outside the establishment from which it is bought.

Etymologies

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From the verb to carry out

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Examples

  • Whether the culprit is an aspiring Cool Disco Dan or someone with a spray can and idle time, he or she had to climb on top of next-door carryout El Rinconcito Deportivo to execute the white bubble letter graffiti peeking out over the second floor north wall of 3222 11th St. NW.

    Second-floor graffiti scrawled in Columbia Heights 2011

  • Get there before three o'clock (for carryout -- we like to buy it and bring it home) and ask for either carne jugosa or a combination of carne jugosa and costillas.

    Carnitas Knowledge?? 2009

  • Please order our dinner from the carryout Thai place we used last time.

    Save as draft Cavanaugh Lee 2011

  • Get there before three o'clock (for carryout -- we like to buy it and bring it home) and ask for either carne jugosa or a combination of carne jugosa and costillas.

    Carnitas Knowledge?? 2009

  • What Hayek said he could not imagine, others did imagine and carryout.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Books that Influenced Me the Most 2010

  • Get there before three o'clock (for carryout -- we like to buy it and bring it home) and ask for either carne jugosa or a combination of carne jugosa and costillas.

    Carnitas Knowledge?? 2009

  • The grain markets will remain volatile because the carryout is still very tight, said Mike Cockrell, chief financial officer of Laurel, Miss., chicken company Sanderson Farms Inc., whose shares rose more than 7% in the wake of the USDA reports.

    USDA Raises Forecasts for Corn, Wheat Exports Ian Berry 2012

  • Get there before three o'clock (for carryout -- we like to buy it and bring it home) and ask for either carne jugosa or a combination of carne jugosa and costillas.

    Carnitas Knowledge?? 2009

  • Get there before three o'clock (for carryout -- we like to buy it and bring it home) and ask for either carne jugosa or a combination of carne jugosa and costillas.

    Carnitas Knowledge?? 2009

  • We cheered ourselves up with a Chinese carryout, then settled down to the 1968 Battle of Britain (PG), which frankly rocked.

    Under the weather zornhau 2009

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