100 Verb-Noun Compound Words
In English, verb-noun compound words are words that combine a verb and a noun to create a new word. These words are often used to convey a specific meaning or action. Here are 100 examples of verb-noun compound words:
1-10
- Pickup (to pick up something)
- Timeout (a pause in an activity)
- Washout (to wash something out)
- Checkout (to examine or investigate)
- Wrapup (to complete or conclude)
- Rundown (a summary or outline)
- Turnout (a gathering or attendance)
- ** Signup** (to register or enroll)
- Takeout (food to be eaten away from the premises)
- Followup (to check on the progress of something)
11-20
- Growup (to mature or become adult)
- Runaround (to evade or avoid)
- Holdup (to delay or obstruct)
- Lookup (to search for or investigate)
- Stepup (to increase or improve)
- Lineup (a sequence of people or things)
- Sellout (to sell all available tickets or products)
- Startup (a new business or project)
- Turnaround (to change direction or policy)
- Shakeout (to remove or eliminate)
21-30
- Wake-up (to wake someone up)
- Makeup (cosmetics or to invent a story)
- Payup (to pay a debt or fine)
- Cleanout (to clean or remove unwanted items)
- Burnout (physical or mental exhaustion)
- Coutdown (a countdown to a specific event)
- Fadeout (a gradual disappearance or decrease)
- Hangup (a difficulty or obstacle)
- Knockout (to hit someone or something hard)
- Letdown (a disappointment or failure)
31-40
- Mailout (to send emails or letters)
- Meetup (a gathering or meeting)
- Mixup (a confusing or unclear situation)
- Nutshell (a brief summary or outline)
- Pickoff (to pick someone up or intercept)
- Plug-in (a device that connects to a computer)
- Ripoff (to steal or copy someone's work)
- Setup (to prepare or arrange something)
- Shutout (to prevent someone from participating)
- Smashup (a collision or crash)
41-50
- Speedup (to increase speed or efficiency)
- Standby (to be ready or available)
- Stepup (to increase or improve)
- Stockout (to run out of stock or supplies)
- Takeoff (to leave the ground or start a journey)
- Teachin (to teach or instruct)
- Timeout (a pause in an activity)
- Tryout (a test or audition)
- Turnin (to turn something in or submit)
- Walkout (to leave a place or meeting)
51-60
- Warmup (to prepare or get ready)
- Washout (to wash something away)
- Wrapup (to complete or conclude)
- Zipup (to close or fasten a zipper)
- Buzzword (a trendy or fashionable term)
- Catchup (to catch someone up or update)
- Cheatcode (a code that gives an advantage)
- Clutchup (to hold or grasp something tightly)
- Cooldown (to relax or calm down)
- Countdown (a countdown to a specific event)
61-70
- Crossover (to cross or intersect with something)
- Cutdown (to reduce or decrease something)
- Dishout (to give or distribute something)
- Dressup (to wear formal or fancy clothes)
- Drownout (to overwhelm or exceed something)
- Fadein (to gradually appear or increase)
- Fasttrack (to speed up or accelerate a process)
- Fillup (to fill something up or complete)
- Flipout (to become angry or upset)
- Foldup (to close or shut something)
71-80
- Foldout (to open or expand something)
- Gearup (to prepare or get ready)
- Giveout (to give or distribute something)
- Gougeout (to remove or extract something)
- Hangup
