Your blackness is questioned, you are called vile names,and you are labeled a “sell-out” or worse.
Remember, John Boehner lives in fear of being braded a sell-out by his caucus, and of Eric Cantor taking his job.
Lennon put smoked windows on his Rolls but the wit was still dry, the put-downs fierce, the lack of sell-out total.
Despite the sell-out crowd of 7,400, the mood was iffy from the get-go.
In other words, the sell-out centrists have a higher number than the unreconstructed lefties!
He pointed out that Leno still plays to sell-out crowds when he performs stand-up.
It's certainly true that Lugar is no Jim DeMint, so if that's your standard, then yes, he's a sell-out.
Old English sellan "to give, furnish, supply, lend; surrender, give up; deliver to; promise," from Proto-Germanic *saljan "offer up, deliver" (cf. Old Norse selja "to hand over, deliver, sell;" Old Frisian sella, Old High German sellen "to give, hand over, sell;" Gothic saljan "to offer a sacrifice"), ultimately from PIE root *sel- (3) "to take, grasp."
Meaning "to give up for money" had emerged by c.1000, but in Chaucer selle still can mean "to give." Students of Old English learn early that the word that looks like sell usually means "give." An Old English word for "to sell" was bebycgan, from bycgan "to buy."
Slang meaning "to swindle" is from 1590s. The noun phrase hard sell is recorded from 1952. To sell one's soul is from c.1570. Sell-by date is from 1972. To sell like hot cakes is from 1839. Selling-point attested from 1959.
To sell (someone) down the river is first recorded 1927, but probably from or with recollection of slavery days, on notion of sale from the Upper South to the cotton plantations of the Deep South (attested in this literal sense since 1851).
An act or instance of selling out, in either sense: He disappointed us, but he was honest enough and it was no sell-out/ The new bathing suits should be a quick sell-out (1862+ for betrayal, 1859+ for disposition of tickets, etc)
A hoax or swindle; a deception: The Cardiff Giant was a ''sell'' (1838+)
[first verb sense said in an article of 1810 to be derived from sell a bargain, ''the dexterous transfer of any unmarketable commodity for a high price to an unwary customer'']