Definitions for sellout

sellout sell·out

Spelling: [sel-out]
IPA: /ˈsɛlˌaʊt/

Sellout is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 140 anagrams from letters in sellout (ellostu).

Definitions for sellout

noun

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

Origin of sellout

1855-60, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase sell out

Examples for sellout

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

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

Yet he described feeling hostility from younger settlers who view him as a sellout.

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

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

Graham is frequently denounced by his party brethren as a moderate, a sellout, and, most damning of all, a RINO.

If he chose to team up with the administration, some in the party would deem him a sellout.

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

I say "ironically" because Bachmann has lashed Pawlenty as a sellout in the past.

Her role was to represent the left in its disgruntlement with what it sees as a sellout by President Barack Obama.

Word Value for sellout
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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