diner-out
Americannoun
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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 diner-out had waited a quarter of an hour for his soup.
From Ever Heard This? Over Three Hundred Good Stories by Chambers, F. W.
A veteran diner-out in full action is certainly a hideous spectacle.
From The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse by Howells, William Dean
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
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
Two years ago, some of the diners-out began to drop out, abandoning the scene to turn into couch potatoes.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are many diners-out who are welcome merely because they know how to carve.
From The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Hartley, Cecil B.
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