Usually means: Examine, borrow, or leave premises.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word check out:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. check out: Merriam-Webster
  2. check out: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. check-out, check out: Collins English Dictionary
  4. check out: Vocabulary.com
  5. Check-Out, Check-out, check-out: Wordnik
  6. check out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. check out: Wiktionary
  8. check-out, check out: Dictionary.com
  9. Check-out: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. check out: Rhymezone
  11. check out, check out (of): Phrasal Verb Page
  12. check out: FreeDictionary.org
  13. check out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. check out: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. check out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. check out: Legal dictionary
  3. check out: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. check out: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. check out: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. check out: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. check out, check out, check out: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. check out: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (check out)

verb:  (intransitive) To confirm and pay for goods and services at a facility (e.g.: supermarket, online store, hotel) when leaving.
verb:  (transitive) To withdraw (an item), as from a library, and have the withdrawal recorded.
verb:  (transitive) To record (someone) as leaving the premises or as taking something therefrom, as from a library or shop.
verb:  (transitive) To examine, inspect, look at closely, ogle; to investigate; to gather information so as to make a decision.
verb:  (transitive, programming) To obtain source code (and/or other material) from a source control repository so that one can modify it (and often later "check in" the modified version back).
verb:  (intransitive) To become uninterested in an activity and cease to participate in more than a perfunctory manner; to become uncooperative.
verb:  (intransitive) To become catatonic or otherwise nonresponsive.
verb:  (intransitive) To leave in a hurry.
verb:  (intransitive, euphemistic, by extension) To die.
verb:  (intransitive) To prove (after an investigation) to be the case, or to be in order.
verb:  (darts) To visit the oche for the last time and clear one's remaining points to win the game.

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