Sell Out

Definition: Sell Out

Sell Out

Verb

1. Get rid of all one's merchandise.

2. Give inside information to; as to the police.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Sell Out

Sale

Verb: sell, vend, dispose of, effect a sale; sell over the counter, sell by auction; Noun: dispense, retail; deal in; sell off, sell out; turn into money, realize; bring to the hammer, bring under the hammer, put up to auction, put up for auction; offer for sale, put up for sale; hawk, bring to market; offer; undersell.

I didn't sell out son, I bought in. (S.L.C. Punk!; writing credit: James Merendino.)

You think I'd sell out. (The Eagle Has Landed; writing credit: Jack Higgins; Tom Mankiewicz)

Yeah like I'd really sell out! (Sabrina the Animated Series; writing credit: Josh Stolberg)

You didn't have to sell out your whole moral code (Baby Blues; writing credit: Neal Boushell; Leonard Dick)

Capitalism! I want to sell out and settle down (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin)

She'll never sell out (SHE WORKS HARD FOR THE MONEY; performing artist: Donna Summer)

When they sell out in stores the price triples (Murder Murder (Remix) *; performing artist: Eminem)

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Books

• Total Sell Out (reference)

• Win at Any Cost: The Sell Out of College Athletics (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Great Spy Movies (Inside Man/Hangmen/The Sell Out) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Sell Out (reference)

• The Big Sell Out (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Economic History

Chad

There are only minimal poultry farming operations supplying the capital city of N'Djamena and these farms regularly sell out even at very high prices. (references)

Japan

Similarly, there are signs that owner-operated unlisted firms--which traditionally would only sell out as a last resort before bankruptcy--are becoming more amenable to acquisition by foreigners. (references)

Georgia

Practices that restrict foreign investment, participation, or control of domestic enterprises are usually informal, sometimes involving criminal pressures that cause foreign owners to sell out their ownership. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "sell out": sell out one's merchandise ♦ To sell out. Additional references.

Albanian

shes të gjitha mallra (sell up), tradhtoj (betray, double cross, fool about, fool around, go back on, quisle, rat, two time). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تخلص من كل شىء, ‏تراجع (back away, back down, back up, backwards, blemish, degradation, draw back, drawback, fall back, fall behind, give back, give ground, give the right of way, kick, lose ground, move back, palinode, recede, recess, recession, recoil, regress, regression, renege, retire, retract, retraction, retreat, retreating, retrogression, stand, take back, turn back, unsay, withdraw), ‏صفى بضاعته, ‏خيانة (betrayal, cheating, deception, disloyalty, double cross, faithlessness, infidelity, perfidy, treachery, treason, unfaithfulness), ‏خان (betray, double cross, false, hotel, inn, khan, play false, rat, renegade, split, squeal, two time), ‏إستسلام (capitulation, resignation, submitting, surrender), ‏بيع كل التذاكر, ‏باع كل المخزون. (various references)

Bulgarian 

разпродавам (sell off), продавам се (fetch, go, move, sell), продавам (dispose of, keep, market, prostitute, sell, trade off, unload, vend), предавам (carry, convey, deliver, denounce, get through, give, give in, give over, give up, hand in, hand over, impart, pass along, pass in, pass round, put out, render, reproduce, resign, sell down the river, send, send on, send out, submit, transfuse, turn over, yield). (various references)

Czech

zaprodat (bargain away, sell), vyprodat, rozprodat (flog off). (various references)

Finnish

myydä loppuun (clear one's stock), loppuunmyydä (clear stock, sell off). (various references)

French

solder (sell at sale price, sell off, settle), se débarrasser de, vendre tous son stock de, trahir. (various references)

German

ausverkaufen (clear, sell off, to sell off, to sell out). (various references)

Greek 

ξεπουλώ (bargain away, barter away), πώληση όλων των θέσεων, προδίδω (bespeak, betray, give away, shop, squeal). (various references)

Hebrew 

מכיר�" כללית, למכור במכירת חסול, לב�'ו�" (betray, deceive, double cross, play false, renegade), �"צ�'�" שכל �"כרטיסים � מכרו, ב�'י�"�" (betrayal, disloyalty, giveaway, perfidy, treachery, treason). (various references)

Hungarian

kiárusít (to sell off, to sell out). (various references)

Italian

esaurire (consume, deplete, dry, exhaust, get exhausted, overcrop, run out, spend, to consume, use up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

大衆に阿る (to sell out to the masses), 売り捌く (to sell out), 売り切る (to sell off, to sell out). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たいしゅうにおもねる (to sell out to the masses), うりきる (to sell off, to sell out), うりさばく (to sell out). (various references)

Pig Latin

ellsay outay.(various references)

Portuguese

vender-se (sell), vender tudo, vender parte ou tudo, trair uma causa, liquidar (acquit, close out, defray, despatch, dispatch, knock off, liquidate, pay, pay down, pay off, pay up, rub out, satisfy, settle), atraiçoar (betray, double-cross, sell). (various references)

Romanian

vânzare totalã în vederea lichidãrii, piesã de teatru (play), expoziţie cu vânzare. (various references)

Russian 

распродавать (sell off). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rasprodati (clear out), izdati (betray, bring out, give away, hand out, issue, lay out, let, pass off, publish). (various references)

Spanish

saldar (balance, discharge, liquidate, pay, pay off, remainder), vender todo, traicionar (betray, double cross, give away, play false, sell down the river, squeal, traitorize), liquidar todas las existencias, liquidar (account for, acquit, clear off, erase, liquefy, liquidate, liquidize, satisfy, sell off, settle, wind up, wipe out). (various references)

Swedish

svek (betrayal, deceit, deception, false pretences, fraudulence, fraudulency, guile, swindle, treachery), succe (success, winner), förräderi (betrayal, perfidy, treachery, treason). (various references)

Turkish

tasfiye etmek (clear up, close out, depurate, houseclean, liquidate, pay up, purge, revive, sell off, try out, wind up), elden çıkarmak (close out, dispose of, part, part with, push off, remainder, sell off, unload). (various references)

Ukrainian

розпродати (sell up, work off), ліквідувати (close up, do away, eliminate, liquidate, wind up, wipe off). (various references)

Misspellings

"Sell Out" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sell aut. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: outsell, sellout.

-1 letter: solute, tousle, tulles.

-2 letters: losel, lotus, louse, louts, lutes, ousel, stole, stull, tells, telos, toles, tolls, tolus, touse, tules, tulle.

-3 letters: ells, lest, lets, lose, lost, lots, lout, lues, lust, lute, oles, oust, outs, sell, sloe, slot, slue, sole, soul, suet, tell, tels, toes, tole, toll, tolu, tule.

-4 letters: ell, els, let, leu, lot.

+1 letter: outsells, outspell, outtells, outyells, pollutes, sellouts, toluoles.

+2 letters: closetful, cloudlets, loudliest, luteolins, outspells, polluters, rostellum, tollhouse.

+3 letters: absolutely, bottlefuls, closetfuls, guillemots, joyfullest, leucoplast, outbullies, outselling, outspelled, petiolules, postbellum, resolutely, rostellums, tollhouses, trolleybus, woefullest.

+4 letters: bluebottles, countlessly, desultorily, dissolutely, dolefullest, doubtlessly, ebullitions, eucalyptols, feuilletons, flocculates, guillotines, leucoplasts, outspelling, plenteously, subtotalled, tremulously, unloveliest.

+5 letters: adulterously, bellybuttons, counterspell, cupellations, equipollents, eucalyptoles, felicitously, gelatinously, heliolatrous, irresolutely, licentiously, meticulously, mournfullest, multiplexors, polypetalous, portcullises, prothalluses, rambouillets, ratatouilles, slothfulness, solubilities, trolleybuses, ultraviolets, volubilities.