Definition of "eat out" []

• Used other than as an idiom: see eat,‎ out. (verb)
• To dine at a restaurant or such public place. (verb)
• To perform cunnilingus. (verb)

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• "We, why we ist eat out of our hands or off a old drygoods box, and when we fix up a lot, we have newspaper."
• "At Flixecourt we eat out of pewter spoons, and the people told us, with much inquietude, that they had sold their plate, in expectation of a decree of the Convention to take it from them."
• "Waste haulers across the country are reporting a decrease in waste put out at the curb as well as a change in content: less packaging and fewer single-use disposable items as people are buying less overall and switching to money-saving and waste-reducing alternatives.5 Some recyclers are noticing an increase in bulk food containers as families are opting to stay home and cook real food, rather than eat out or buy preprocessed food.6"