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
Example Sentences
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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 John Addington Symonds
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 William Dean Howells
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
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
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
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
New ski hotels in the Caucasus attract rising young bureaucrats and party officials, and diners-out in Moscow can see an elaborate floor show at the huge Arbat restaurant, with gypsy dancing, jugglers and magicians.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was all sure to prove interesting to her fellow diners-out.
From The Heart of Arethusa by Frances Barton Fox
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