check out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: checks out
form: checking out
form: checked out
form: checked out
Senses: examples: text: He checked his favorite mystery out for the twenty-third time.
text: The desk clerk checked out the family that had been staying in room 322.
glosses: To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
examples: text: Be sure to check out of the hotel before noon.
text: I'm done shopping, so I'll go check out now.
text: […] the singer person is checking out from the first floor suite next week, […]
ref: 1921, Sewell Ford, Inez & Trilby May, New York: Grosset & Dunlap; Harper & Brothers, page 41:
text: "Relax," said the night man / "We are programmed to receive / You can check out any time you like / But you can never leave!"
ref: 1977, “Hotel California”, in Don Henley, Glenn Frey (lyrics), Don Felder (music), Hotel California, performed by The Eagles:
text: At 9:30 am, 12 inmates were checked out to the dispensary.
ref: 2010, Peterson's, Master the Corrections Officer Exam, Peterson's, page 9
glosses: To record one's departure from a workplace, hotel, restaurant, etc.
examples: text: He was hanging out at the beach, checking out the young women in bikinis.
text: He checked out the rumor, and managed to verify that it was true.
text: Check it out! Best prices in town.
text: Check this out! They just arrested the Mayor!
text: If Mr. Brill had been interested in accuracy, he might have read the written statement I presented that night. I was speaking on my own behalf because I felt that the Darts management deserved my support. Mr. Brill might even have asked me about my testimony. Instead he chose to check out his half-facts with others. His resultant report was inaccurate and divisive.
ref: 1979 August 25, Steven Tierney, “Darts”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 6, page 5:
glosses: To examine, inspect, look at closely, ogle; to investigate; to gather information so as to make a decision.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To obtain source code (and/or other material) from a source control repository so that one can modify it (and often later "check in" the modified version back).
examples: text: The purpose of this exercise was to ignite reactions from students, but over the few years I used it, it backfired, culminating in a situation where I lost a significant number of the white students, who just "checked out" for the rest of the semester.
ref: 2010, S. Greggory Johnson III, The Black Professoriat: Negotiating a Habitable Space in the Academy, page 189:
glosses: To become uninterested in an activity and cease to participate in more than a perfunctory manner; to become uncooperative.
examples: text: Even during those years, there would be a lot of times she just checked out. She would be sitting there looking at her nails and she'd just be gone.
ref: 2007, Susan Nathiel, Daughters of Madness: Growing Up and Older With a Mentally Ill Mother, page 42:
glosses: To become catatonic or otherwise nonresponsive.
glosses: To leave in a hurry.
examples: text: Steve: (referring to his girlfriend attempting suicide in front of both of them) Look, I was just an observer.
Bishop: You haven't answered my question.
Steve: Well, what do you think?
Bishop: We'll never know, will we?
Steve: Well, say I just sat there—or we just sat there—and watched her check out. Think that would have been crazy?
ref: 1972, The Mechanic (1972 film), Charles Bronson (as Mr. Bishop), Jan-Michael Vincent (as Steve)
text: With a bottle full of sleeping pills and a long list of sins
She'd already planned on checking out before she checked in
ref: 2012, Gwen Sebastian, Met Him In a Motel Room:
glosses: To die.
examples: text: The first two leads check out; I'll assume the third one is also valid.
text: Their stories checked out.
text: A comparison test was made with this weapon in laboratory. It definitely checks out as the murder gun.
ref: 1960, “The Case of the Ill-Fated Faker”, in Perry Mason, season 4, episode 3:
text: MySQL checks the validity of the account name and password, and checks whether the connection is coming from a host that's allowed to connect [...]. If everything checks out, MySQL accepts the connection.
ref: 2013, Steve Suehring, Janet Valade, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript & HTML5 All-in-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 459:
glosses: To prove (after an investigation) to be the case, or to be in order.
topics: darts
games
glosses: To visit the oche for the last time and clear one's remaining points to win the game.
Derived terms: check you out
checkout
self-check out