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take out

• escort someone to a social event or place of entertainment.
• "I took her out to dinner the following night"
• obtain an official document or service.
• "you can take out a loan for a specific purchase"
• relieve frustration or anger by attacking or mistreating a person or thing not responsible for such feelings.
• "my parents always take their anger out on me"
• buy food at a cafe or restaurant for eating elsewhere.
• "he ordered a lamb madras to take out"
• kill, destroy, or disable someone or something.
• "some say the Mob took him out for crossing them"
Similar: kill, murder, assassinate, put to death, do away with, put an end to, get rid of, dispatch, execute, finish off, eliminate, exterminate, terminate, destroy, obliterate, annihilate, do in, bump off, rub out, wipe out, hit, mow down, top, slay,
• respond to a bid or double by one's partner by bidding a different suit.
• "most players would take their partners out into 4♥ on these hands"

takeout noun

• food that is cooked and sold by a restaurant or store to be eaten elsewhere; takeaway.
• a bid (in a different suit) made in response to a bid or double by one's partner.
• "I doubled for takeout, eliciting a 4NT reply from Robson"


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