SELLOUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sellout mean? 

• SELLOUT (noun)
  The noun SELLOUT has 4 senses:

1. someone who has sold out

2. an event for which all tickets are sold

3. the selling of an entire stock of something

4. a betrayal of one's principles principles, country, cause, etc.

  Familiarity information: SELLOUT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELLOUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who has sold out

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("sellout" is a kind of...):

bad person (a person who does harm to others)

Derivation:

sell out (abandon one's principles for expedience or financial gain)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An event for which all tickets are sold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Context example:

get your tickets for the concert early, it is sure to be a sellout

Hypernyms ("sellout" is a kind of...):

social event (an event characteristic of persons forming groups)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The selling of an entire stock of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the latest Xbox game is so popular, shops are warning of a probable sellout before Christmas

Hypernyms ("sellout" is a kind of...):

marketing; merchandising; selling (the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money)

Derivation:

sell out (sell or get rid of all one's merchandise)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A betrayal of one's principles principles, country, cause, etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("sellout" is a kind of...):

betrayal; perfidy; treachery; treason (an act of deliberate betrayal)

Derivation:

sell out (abandon one's principles for expedience or financial gain)