check someone/something out

check someone/something out
1) establish the truth or inform oneself about someone or something

they decided to go and check out a local restaurant

2) check something out enter the price of goods in a supermarket into a cash machine for addition and payment by a customer
register something as having been borrowed

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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