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say it: SEL-owt
sellout is a noun meaning "someone who has sold out". It carries 4 recorded senses.
someone who has sold out
an event for which all tickets are sold
“get your tickets for the concert early, it is sure to be a sellout”
the selling of an entire stock of something
“the latest Xbox game is so popular, shops are warning of a probable sellout before Christmas”
a betrayal of one's principles principles, country, cause, etc.
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sellout come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.