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Take-out or takeout (in North American and Philippine English); also carry-out (in U.S. and Scotland); take-away (in the United Kingdom other than Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Hong Kong, and Ireland), parcel (in Indian English and Pakistani English), refers to prepared meals or other food items, purchased at a restaurant, that the purchaser intends to eat elsewhere. A concept found in many ancient cultures, take-out food is now common worldwide, with a number of different cuisines and dishes on offer.
Usage examples of "take-out".
He popped four extra-strength ibuprofen like candy, then got a take-out sandwich at a sub shop.
When Michael David off returned from work, with several bags of odiferous Thai take-out, I had been asleep all afternoon, and he had been awake for almost two days.
The wastebasket contained only a menu from the take-out pizza parlor next to the Swifty Mart.
Kirk had none other than chicken tikka masala tucked away in the take-out bag in his fridge, I could have cared less if he and that laptop of his disappeared into the sunset together.
I called Mark Lander to see if he could send anyone our way before he left for France but his two-year-old was screaming like a banshee because she snuck a gob of wasabi out of his take-out sushi tray.
After a morning of prowling through the Main Street shops for welcome basket goodies, Julia and Syd had grabbed take-out bratwurst from Auslander Biergar-ten and walked the short distance to the park.
Curled up around my take-out box, I flicked a glance at Ivy as she slowly pulled her chopsticks out from between her lips.
Chinese take-out places, liquor stores, bodegas, all of them serving their customers through slots or sliding drawers in shields of Plexiglas.
As he made his purchases from a tridimensional display in the shop above, fresh food, medicines, clothing, and other selected items would be ordered, inventoried, individually packaged, and shipped upward to arrive in their appropriate take-out containers.
And incidentally, neither did you say it was confidential when you revealed before this interview that the price you charged for those three take-out caskets was almost ten thousand dollars.
I bought an evening paper and a few take-out kebabs to relish alongside my coffee and toast.
When they were on good domestic terms they stayed in their bedroom for days of squeaking springs with the door locked except for brief sallies out for Beefeater gin and Chinese take-out in little white cardboard pails with wire handles, with the Stice children wandering ghostlike through the clapboard house in sagging diapers or woolen underwear subsisting on potato chips out of econobags bigger than most of them were, the Stice kids.
In the hierarchy of hell this put him far below the archdemons like Mammon, master of avarice, but far above the blue-collar demons like Arrrgg, who was responsible for leeching the styrofoam taste into take-out coffee.
Mary Catherine strolled among the smoking beef pits, from Texas, North Carolina, Kansas City, and decided that, beyond providing her with a quick take-out dinner, comparative barbecue was not very interesting to her.
Adam Real-Last-Name-Unknown, the psychotic bread baker, alone in his small, filthy Upper West Side apartment, his eyes two different sizes after a thirty-six-hour coke and liquor jag, white crust accumulated at the corners of his mouth, a two-day growth of whiskers-standing there in a shirt and no pants amongst the porno mags, the empty Chinese take-out containers, as the Spice Channel flickers silently on the TV, throwing blue light on a can of Dinty Moore beef stew by an unmade bed.