check out
Dictionary
verb
- To confirm and pay for goods and services at a facility (e.g.: supermarket, online store, hotel) when leaving.
"Be sure to check out of the hotel before noon."
- To withdraw (an item), as from a library, and have the withdrawal recorded.
"He checked his favorite mystery out for the twenty-third time."
- To record (someone) as leaving the premises or as taking something therefrom, as from a library or shop.
"The desk clerk checked out the family that had been staying in room 322."
- To examine, inspect, look at closely, ogle; to investigate; to gather information so as to make a decision.
"Check it out! Best prices in town."
- To obtain source code from a repository.
- To become uninterested in an activity and cease to participate in more than a perfunctory manner; to become uncooperative.
- To become catatonic or otherwise nonresponsive.
- To leave in a hurry.
- (by extension) To die.
- To prove (after an investigation) to be the case, or to be in order.
"The first two leads check out; I'll assume the third one is also valid."
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