diner-out

American  

[dahy-ner-out] / ˈdaɪ nərˈaʊt /

noun

diners-out plural

1. a person who dines out.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• diners-out
  plural

Etymology

Origin of diner-out

1800–10; dine out + -er ¹

Example Sentences

In term-time Walter Starkie is professor of Spanish literature in Dublin University, a director of the Abbey Theatre, the most indefatigable diner-out in Dublin, with a finger in every literary, academic and musical pie.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Vice President is the administration's prime diner-out.

From Time Magazine Archive

The dinner party would have passed off very tamely if Phillipus, a professional diner-out and jester, had not opportunely made his appearance.

From A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion by Symonds, John Addington

In London he was a club-man and a diner-out; and what a tale for the Athenæum—what a short cut to every ear at a Kensington dinner-table!

From Stingaree by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

And, too, there was Sir William Busey, a good diner-out, and always ready to do such noble deeds.

From The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth by Templeton, Timothy