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CAIRRY-OOT, n.comb also carryout, cerry-oot, carry out, kerry oot, cairy oot. Food or alcoholic drink bought in a restaurant, pub etc. for consumption elsewhere.Gsw. 1966 Archie Hind The Dear Green Place (1984) 37:
As he held up the paper bag in his hand the bottles inside chinked. 'Cairry oot.' Mat licked his lips. 'I'm for some of that.'Gsw. 1983 James Kelman Not not while the giro 31:
They hid brung a cerry-oot wi thim so A goat the glesses and it turned oot no a bad wee night,...wm.Sc. 1984 Agnes Owens Gentlemen of the West 31:
As a further bonus, at closing time Murdo ordered a carryout of a half-bottle of whisky and cans of beer.Gsw. 1985 Michael Munro The Patter 15:
carry-out Drinks or food bought for comsumption elsewhere, take-away: 'We'd better get a carry-out for this party.' 'We had a chinky carry-out for our tea.'Sc. 1989 Scotsman 22 Jul 6:
Others will be too young to remember brown-paper carrier bags with string handles, or such hazards as getting the bag wet in the rain until it lost its strength and deposited one's cairry-oot on the pavement.Edb. 1991:
We used tae get a cairry oot o vino in the canteen when I wis in Italy.Ags. 1994 Jan Natanson in James Robertson A Tongue in Yer Heid 107:
Then we leaned ower tae put oan the wan bar electric fire. S***! A went an put ma elbie in the Chinkie cairry-oot left ower fae the night afore. m.Sc. 1994 Mary McCabe Everwinding Times 339:
See Linda, ma big sister, well wan time ma mammy made hur take a haill big Chinese cerry-oot an she wis awfy awfy no weel after it.Sc. 1999 Herald 8 Sep 17:
There are some areas of commercial endeavour where language is not a problem. The cairyoot shops tend to have large simple signs with the word "alkohol".w.Lth. 2000 Davie Kerr A Puckle Poems 21:
... curry that can nip yir een.
Indian or Chinese, —
we hae cairry oots as weel.