diner-out

American  

[dahy-ner-out] / ˈdaɪ nərˈaʊt /

noun

plural

diners-out

1. a person who dines out.

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Etymology

Origin of diner-out

1800–10; dine out + -er ¹

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

He preferred teaching the lads cricket to shooting with the squire, and he was a poor diner-out.

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

Talking of the bad effects of late hours Sydney Smith said of a distinguished diner-out that it would be written on his tomb, "He dined late."

From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Hardy, Edward John

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)