eat out
— phrasal verb with eat uk/iːt/us/iːt/verb [ I or T ] ate, eaten
B1 to eat in a restaurant:
When I lived in Spain, I used to eat out all the time.
More examples
- I'm not implying anything about your cooking, but could we eat out tonight?
- You can tell from his empty unused kitchen that he tends to eat out a lot.
- Dad hates eating out, both because of the cost and because he's too impatient.
- Because I hadn't had time to go shopping, I suggested that we all ate out - my treat.
- The boss simply eats out all the time when his wife is away.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Eating
- al desko
- ate
- binge
- binge eating
- bite
- consume
- feast on sth
- feeder
- feeding
- finish
- finish (sth) up
- gorge
- put sth away
- scarf
- scoff
- shovel sth into your mouth idiom
- snack
- stoke
- swallow
- tuck
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