# carryout

Pronunciation: say "KAR-ee-owt" /ˈkæɹiˌaʊt/

## Noun

1. Food bought to be eaten away from the place that sold it. *(dialectal, Scotland)*
   - Simple: Food you buy at a restaurant or shop to eat somewhere else.
   - _We grabbed carryout from the Thai place and ate it at my desk._
   - _Friday night meant a carryout from the chippy, eaten straight from the paper._
2. A shop or restaurant that prepares food when customers order it and sells it to be taken away. *(dialectal, Scotland)*
   - Simple: A place that cooks food when you order it, for you to take away.
   - _The new carryout by the station does the best curry in town._
   - _She worked weekends at a barbecue carryout off the interstate._

## Origin

A noun formed from the verb phrase carry out.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/carryout (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).