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sell out

/sel-out/US // ˈsɛlˌaʊt //

卖出,售罄,卖完了,售出

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act or instance of selling out.
    • : an entertainment, as a show or athletic event, for which all the seats are sold.
    • : Informal. a person who betrays a cause, organization, or the like; traitor.
    • : Informal. a person who compromises his or her personal values, integrity, talent, or the like, for money or personal advancement.

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Examples

  • One, treat each other with respect–don’t say that guy’s a sellout or this person has no courage.

  • So, too, is this Baltimore Orioles team — one on the upswing but enduring growing pains on a big league stage, as shown by a 7-3 loss to the Boston Red Sox before an announced sellout crowd of 10,150 in the club’s home opener.

  • The Dayton Dragons, a Class A league team owned by the Cincinnati Reds that holds the longest sellout streak of any sports team in America, draws 540,000 fans to the Ohio city’s downtown every summer.

  • The biggest, most well-funded competitions, like Activision-Blizzard’s Overwatch League, are held in-person in massive arenas like Madison Square Garden, often before sellout crowds.

  • If one is a person of color and a conservative, one must then be an Uncle Tom, a sellout to his or her race.

  • But if you live on tea party planet, Boehner has been a sellout.

  • The contention was that a sellout was taking place led by, of all people, Richard Nixon, who originally exposed Alger Hiss.

  • Ideological polarization, however, eviscerates the center by treating compromise as a sellout.

  • It also requires that liberals think differently about politics and not interpret every Obama shortcoming as some kind of sellout.

  • "That was the dirtiest sellout I've ever heard, Manning," Tom growled.