Verb
- (slang, idiomatic) To confess, or to divulge secrets, typically speaking freely and at length after a change of motive or an incentive.
- At first, the suspect would not tell us anything about the other participants in the crime. But after being offered a deal, he spilled his guts.
- Synonyms: spill the beans
- (slang, idiomatic) To vomit.
- 1994 Garth Battista, The runner's literary companion: great stories and poems about running, Breakaway Books, p102
- He suddenly wanted to vomit, to spill his guts right here on Lake Street in front of the thousands watching.
- 2006 Arthur Roberts, The Sorcerer's Song and the Cat's Meow, p167
- A stench preceded a green cloud that almost caused the wizard to spill his guts.
- 2007 Joyce Sterling Scarbrough, Different Roads, Stonehedge Publishing
- But the sudden motion combined with the inhuman amount of whiskey he’d consumed must’ve gotten to him, because he started to look green and made a dive for the side of the bed to spill his guts.
- 1994 Garth Battista, The runner's literary companion: great stories and poems about running, Breakaway Books, p102
- Russian: раска́лываться
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