Meaning

1 senses
  1. (US)A gathering for a meal that is cooked and eaten outside; either a domestic barbecue or a larger social event.

    an informal meal cooked and eaten outdoors

Examples

6 sentences
  1. Welcome to our cookout.

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  2. Tom loves cookouts.

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  3. We had a veggie burger cookout.

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  4. Tom hosted a cookout in his backyard.

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  5. I am going to a cookout this coming weekend and I am supposed to be bringing the raw hamburgers.

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Origin

From cook + out.

From cook + out.

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Forms

plural: cookouts
Singularcookout
Pluralcookouts

regular

Word family

1 related words
Relatedcook out

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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