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check out

phraseB12 meaningsNot compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

To check out is to leave a hotel and settle the bill. Also, quite separately, to take a look at something.

The hotel sense has a fixed time attached, and check-out at eleven is the standard piece of small print. The looking sense is informal and American in origin and now universal, so checking out a new restaurant means going to see what it is like. There is a third sense meaning to prove correct, since a story that checks out has been verified. Checkout is also where you pay in a shop.

Definitions of check out

  1. 1phrasecheck outTo leave a hotel after paying.B1

    “We have to check out before eleven.”

  2. 2phraselookTo look at or investigate something.B1

    “You should check out the market on Saturday.”

Practised in Phrasal Verbs, A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 15 of A Man Called Ove.

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