diner-out
Americannoun
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diners-out
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of diner-out
1800–10; dine out + -er 1
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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
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 John Addington Symonds
I believe the reason at the bottom is that R. B. is a clever London diner-out, etc., while A. T. holds aloof from the newspaper men, etc.
From Tennyson and His Friends by Various
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 Timothy Templeton
They were professional diners-out, who noticed details — why does she allow her butler to cut the cucumbers with a steel knife?
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
After dinner, he sat down on a big davenport and fell into conversation with Political Columnist Arthur Krock, head of the New York Times's Washington bureau and one of the capital's most indefatigable diners-out.
From Time Magazine Archive
Restaurant patrons often complain of being taken, but in inflationary 1974 it is the diners-out who are doing the taking.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of interest to Washington diners-out is the fact that unlike Sir Esme Howard, Sir Ronald Lindsay is not a teetotaler, will almost certainly abolish the rule against the importation of embassy liquor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Colman was a very frequent guest at these dinners, and was, with the exception perhaps of Lord Alvanley, one of the most brilliant diners-out in London.’
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 by Various
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