serve out

verb4

1. •
   To serve the whole of some period.

   • The politician did not serve out his term.
2. •
   To deal out or distribute.

   • The waiters served out soup to the guests.
3. •
   To win a set, or by extension a match, by holding serve (winning a game as the server).
4. •
   (no longer used) To pay back; to have one's revenge on.

   • 'Yar!' said she, 'you little meddlesome wretch, I have you now! I will serve you out for telling the salmon where I was!' — 1863