sellout
- an act or instance of selling out.
- an entertainment, as a show or athletic event, for which all the seats are sold.
- Informal. a person who betrays a cause, organization, or the like; traitor.
- Informal. a person who compromises his or her personal values, integrity, talent, or the like, for money or personal advancement.
Origin of sellout
Related Words for sellout
giveaway, double-dealing, deception, trickery, duplicity, treachery, unfaithfulness, perfidy, treason, falseness, dishonestyExamples from the Web for sellout
Contemporary Examples of sellout
If one is a person of color and a conservative, one must then be an Uncle Tom, a sellout to his or her race.
But if you live on tea party planet, Boehner has been a sellout.
The contention was that a sellout was taking place led by, of all people, Richard Nixon, who originally exposed Alger Hiss.
Ideological polarization, however, eviscerates the center by treating compromise as a sellout.
It also requires that liberals think differently about politics and not interpret every Obama shortcoming as some kind of sellout.
Word Origin and History for sellout
also sell-out, "corrupt bargain," 1862 (in Mary Chesnut's diary), from the verbal phrase (at that time often meaning "dispose of one's interests" in a company, etc.), from sell (v.) + out (adv.). Meaning "event for which all tickets have been sold" is attested from 1923. The verbal phrase sell out "prostitute one's ideals or talents" is attested from 1888.