check out
verb- To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.). · He checked his favorite mystery out for the twenty-third time.· The desk clerk checked out the family that had been staying in room 322.
- To record one's departure from a workplace, hotel, restaurant, etc. · Be sure to check out of the hotel before noon.· I'm done shopping, so I'll go check out now.
- To examine, inspect, look at closely, ogle; to investigate; to gather information so as to make a decision. · He was hanging out at the beach, checking out the young women in bikinis.· He checked out the rumor, and managed to verify that it was true.
- To obtain source code (or other material) from a source control repository so that one can modify it (and often later check in the modified version).
- To become uninterested in an activity and cease to participate in more than a perfunctory manner; to become uncooperative.
- To become catatonic or otherwise nonresponsive.
- To leave in a hurry.
- To die.
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