Crossword clues for sellout
sellout
- Full house
- Box-office success
- Commercial success
- Box office triumph
- Smash of a show
- S. R. O
- Person who betrays their principles
- Have every single ticket bought: 2 wds
- Full-house (event)
- Fellow who compromises his values
- Event with no empty seats
- Draw lots?
- Compromise one's integrity
- Be untrue
- "No more seats" situation
- Compromise one's talents
- Hit show
- An act of betrayal
- Cause of an S.R.O. sign
- World Series game, usually
- Abandon one's principles for money
- Turn traitor
- Betrayal
- S.R.O. show
- Super Bowl, usually
- Event with no further ticket availability
- Betray one's principles
- Smash hit
- Successful show
- Standing-room-only show
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also sell-out, "corrupt bargain," 1862 (in Mary Chesnut's diary), from the verbal phrase (at that time often meaning "dispose of one's interests" in a company, etc.), from sell (v.) + out (adv.). Meaning "event for which all tickets have been sold" is attested from 1923. The verbal phrase sell out "prostitute one's ideals or talents" is attested from 1888.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An action in which principles are compromised for financial gain. 2 A person who compromises his or her principles for financial gain. 3 The selling of an entire stock of something, especially tickets for an entertainment or sports event.
WordNet
n. an act of betrayal
Wikipedia
SellOut is an Australian daytime game show series which airs on 7TWO on 22 September 2014, It's hosted by Michael Pope. The show pits a pair of contestants against each other for the chance to win prizes. These same prizes can then be purchased by the shows viewers.
Usage examples of "sellout".
Presumably they were told you were a sellout, that you might give up their names.
The piece about Justice Thomas quoted just about everyone in North America who had something bad to say about him, naturally including many who consider him a sellout and an Uncle Tom.
Student radicals today may call Kennedy a phony liberal and a glamorous sellout, but only the very young will deny that it was Kennedy who got them excited enough to want to change the American reality, instead of just quitting it.
Unlike many nonstudent activists, he has no degree, and in the society that appalls him even a sellout needs credentials.
Many a man has whipped up a hell of a broth of reasons to justify his sellout, but few recommend the taste of it.
But I kept quiet and let him ramble on in general about the shitty state of everything, about all the fuckin psychedelic sellouts and nut-cutting feminist harpies and brain-crippling shrinks and mother-raping bulls who run this black fuckin world.
We published three issues, they were all immediate sellouts, yet somehow we went broke.
There were never any sellouts, but the 30,000 or so regulars were extremely heavy drinkers, and at least 10,000 of them were out there for no other reason except to get involved in serious violence.
And when, in 1841, the great Charles Lyell traveled to America to give a series of lectures in Boston, sellout audiences of three thousand at a time packed into the Lowell Institute to hear his tranquilizing descriptions of marine zeolites and seismic perturbations in Campania.
I wonder, when the red fight on the camera goes off, does Bill O’Reilly or Chris Matthews or Tucke r Carlson ever say to these sellouts, “Hey, there’s a house next to mine for sale—you oughta move in!