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Check out

verb

Examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition. Synonyms: check, check into, check over, check up on, go over, look into, suss out. "Check out the engine"

Announce one's departure from a hotel.

Be verified or confirmed; pass inspection. Synonym: check.

Trace. Synonym: run down.

Record, add up, and receive payment for items purchased.

Withdraw money by writing a check. Synonym: cheque.

Try to learn someone's opinions and intentions. Synonyms: feel out, sound out.

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"Check out" Quotes from Famous Books

... the old lady the only unoccupied room in the hotel—one with a private bath adjoining. The next morning, when the guest was ready to check out, ...

— Best Short Stories • Various

... bearded—"barbados"—now and again a more or less dark Costa Rican, Guatemalteco, Venezuelan, stray islanders from St. Vincent, Trinidad, or Guadalupe, individuals defying classification. But the chief reward for denying myself a holiday were the "back-calls" in the town itself which I was able to check out of my field-book. Many a long-sought negro I roused from his holiday siesta, dashing past the tawdry calico curtains to pound him awake—mere auricular demonstration having only the effect of lulling him into deeper ...

— Zone Policeman 88 - A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and its Workers • Harry A. Franck

... it is, that is doing it—it's your anxiety for me and the uncertainty of everything. You haven't been able to rest because you have been raging and fuming so at unavoidable conditions—you have been fighting facts. And it's all so useless, Steve, between you and me—everything would check out on zero if we'd just ...

— Spacehounds of IPC • Edward Elmer Smith

... it is eight years since Kelly's long fast. She still comes to see me every few years to check out her diet and just say hello. She has had two more children by a new, and thoroughly wonderful husband and suckled them both for two years each; her peaceful rural life centers around this new, happy family and the big, Organic ...

— How and When to Be Your Own Doctor • Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon

... advance that pattern two days," he said furiously. Then, as the new pattern emerged, "I should have known it. It looks like we're being set up for a solar flare. Right when we're getting rolling. It might be a while, though. Plenty of time to check out a few gee swings. But best you rehearse your slipstick jockeys in ...

— Where I Wasn't Going • Walt Richmond