check out

  • (verb): To confirm and pay for goods and services at a facility (e.g.: supermarket, online store, hotel) when leaving.
  • (verb): To withdraw (an item), as from a library, and have the withdrawal recorded.
  • (verb): To record (someone) as leaving the premises or as taking something therefrom, as from a library or shop.
  • (verb): To examine, inspect, look at closely, ogle; to investigate; to gather information so as to make a decision.
  • (verb): To obtain source code from a repository.
  • (verb): To become uninterested in an activity and cease to participate in more than a perfunctory manner; to become uncooperative.
  • (verb): To become catatonic or otherwise nonresponsive.
  • (verb): To leave in a hurry.
  • (verb): (by extension) To die.
  • (verb): To prove (after an investigation) to be the case, or to be in order.
  • Be sure to check out of the hotel before noon.
  • 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.
  • Check it out! Best prices in town.
  • The first two leads check out; I'll assume the third one is also valid.