make out meaning
EN- VerbSGmakes outPRmaking outPT, PPmade out
- (transitive) To draw up (a document etc.), to designate (a cheque) to a given recipient, payee.
- Cheques may be made out to the Foo Bar Company.
- (obsolete, transitive) To send out.
- (transitive) To discern; to manage to see, hear etc.
- (now chiefly US, regional, intransitive) To manage, get along; to do (well, badly etc.).
- Oh, you were on a TV game show? How did you make out?
- (transitive, intransitive) To represent; to make (something) appear to be true.
- His version of the story makes me out to be the bad guy.
- (slang, chiefly US, intransitive) To kiss passionately.
- We found a secluded spot where we could make out in private.
- (intransitive) To engage in heavy petting or have sex.
- (transitive) To draw up (a document etc.), to designate (a cheque) to a given recipient, payee.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- "Claudia is such a tramp; making out with all those men when she has a boyfriend."
- We found a secluded spot where we could make out in private.
- [T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of make out in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary