The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word BORROW which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2023.
Check out, as a book crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| BORROW | 100 % | 6 |
Why may BORROW be the right solution?
The word "borrow" means to take and use something with the intention of returning it. When you check out a book from a library, you are borrowing it with the expectation of returning it within a certain period of time. Therefore, "borrow" is the right answer to the clue "Check out, as a book."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Check out, as a book
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- checking
- see
- test
- audit
- ascertain
- verifying
- case
- determine
- scan
- peek
- control
Crossword Answer definitions
BORROW noun- Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
- A borrow pit.
- In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
- To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
- To take money from a bank under the agreement that the bank will be paid over the course of time.
- To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
- To adopt a word from another language.
- In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
- (Upper Midwestern United States) To lend.
- To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
- To feign or counterfeit.
- (obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
- To receive (something) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
- A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
- A surety; someone standing bail.
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