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

See Examples For:

diner-out diners-out

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 diner-out had waited a quarter of an hour for his soup.

From Ever Heard This? Over Three Hundred Good Stories by F. W. Chambers

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

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

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 E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

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

Two years ago, some of the diners-out began to drop out, abandoning the scene to turn into couch potatoes.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Idlers, parasites, toadies, club-frequenters and diners-out are there in the masks of court-fools, and buffoons.

From The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' by H. B. (Henry Bernard) Cotterill