(bridge) a bid that asks your partner to bid another suit

Usage examples of takeout.

Today there was a shopping expedition at Wild Oats in Notting Hill, which produced a crate of Evian water and Moroccan takeout that still sits in the salmon-hued kitchen.

Besides, once the contents of the courier packet were transferred to a wrinkled takeout bag, no one would suspect what Lee knew for a fact: the gems were worth a million, minimum.

By the time Brody showed up with Johnny and takeout breakfast, I had bathed Kikit and put her in her own pajamas.

Worse yet was settling for Chinese takeout from places called Big Freds and watereddown cappuccino from conveniencestore vending machines.

The County side was bustling: traffic fatalities lined up on gurneys, morgue jockeys tagging big toes, uniformed deputies writing dead body reports and Coroner's men chaining cigarettes to kill the stench of blood, formaldehyde and stale chink takeout.

Social activity in every little Outback town centered around its pubs, or the bottle shops where liquor could be purchased for takeout.

Decades later, some of us could recite in unison the litany of names of Water Street, Gino's Grocery, Ace TV-Radio Repair, Midas Shoe Repair, Glenside Vacuum Cleaner Repair, North China Takeout with its mysteriously steamed window and glaring interior.

In the comparatively small kitchen he discovered a refrigerator with nothing in it but three white paper containers from Chinese takeout, half a carton of spoiled skim milk, an empty box of shredded wheat, a head of garlic, half a head of spoiled iceberg lettuce, some semiwilted scallions, and a jar of Reese's peanut butter.

The girl looked as if she might, at any moment, lose her lunch, which Beverly happened to know had been takeout kung pao chicken.

We went up to our little room, tired and hungry and I reflected on the irony of having twenty billion in net worth and being unable to order takeout Chinese food for lunch.

They were all lined with tiny terrace houses, of which every fourth one seemed to be a hairdresser's, and dotted with garages and brick shopping precincts with an unvarying array of supermarkets, banks, video takeouts, pie and pea shops, and betting establishments.

All in all, with the plastic packet of soy sauce from the takeout, it was enough.

He was pouring spaghetti sauce out of the greasestained cardboard takeout bucket the spaghetti had come in.