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take-away

a. of, or relating to food intended to be eaten off the premises

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take-away

adj. of or involving food to be taken and eaten off the premises; "takeout pizza"; "the takeout counter"; "`take-away' is chiefly British" [syn: takeout]

Usage examples of "take-away".

Marlboros, dirty dishes with remains of the tandoori take-away a pair of very expensive-looking panties that she cheerfully bins, ditto various discarded makeup articles in the bathroom.

Hence, after several months of intense experimentation, several thousand Mexican take-aways and a government grant large enough to pay back the Third World debt, they came up with the Time Crystal.

How the cat in the experiment had vanished and the professors at his university had designed and constructed a spacetime machine using the anomalies in the universal continuum to get around Time's Arrow but then somebody had pushed the wrong button when Neils and himself had gone out down to the Mexican take-aways so that the entire faculty had disappeared into another universe and then the riot squad had arrived and interrogated himself and the rabbit and then made him go after the cat by himself and how had he arrived at Earth to capture the cat and take it back for trial on his planet but he had missed it when the man in the wardrobe wearing the lab coat and Stetson wouldn't talk to him so he accidently vaporized the kitchen and fallen through in the fish tank and gotten electrocuted while standing on the pot plant and decided in the end to open the beer with his hands and not his head.

On the drive back to the apartment he stopped off to buy yet more new clothes and a mobile phone, made a large cash withdrawal and signed off with a take-away from Oshi Dashi, a Japanese restaurant on Missionary.

And I'm sure I don't have to remind you what happened when the late Mr Hong chose to open his Three Jolly Luck Take-Away Fish Bar in Dagon Street during the lunar eclipse.

He headed to the outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy where, it was said, wisdom and truth were to be found, most particularly on the planet Hawalius, which was a planet of oracles and seers and soothsayers and also take-away pizza shops, because most mystics were completely incapable of cooking for themselves.