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"get takeout" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to ordering food (usually from a restaurant or other food business) to take away and eat elsewhere. For example, "Let's get takeout for dinner tonight."
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We could always get takeout.
I added, "We're going to get takeout".
Kwartler advised them to skip the line and get takeout from a place nearby.
Listen for the American idiomatic phrase "Let's get takeout for Boxing Day," followed by "Someone call for pizza".
"We drove to get takeout Chinese, then brought it back and ate it straight from the cartons, in silence, while sitting on the living-room floor.
On a second visit, I would either sit outdoors or get takeout — anything to avoid the chill, the din and the dark.
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"My husband gets takeout and brings it home".
Two workers hired to frame out and panel the walls had just locked themselves out while getting takeout food.
"That's Vanessa Williams, getting takeout, over there in the waiting area!" a customer at the counter confided.
One boy loved Chinese food and the other loved pizza, so she got takeout at the 2 places to make each one happy for dinner.
Only two sit-down restaurants in Baghdad were still open for business, anyway, and, to avoid problems, Sabah usually got takeout meals from one or the other.
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