spit out
Verb
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Verb
spit out
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see spit, out
- To say reluctantly i see also spit it out.
- 1920, Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: a story of the salt marshes, Chapter XXII,
- "Hark ye, mistress," said the shepherd. "I've had much on my tongue this many a day, but you haven't given me the chance to spit it out. I won't be put off any longer."
- 1920, Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: a story of the salt marshes, Chapter XXII,
- To rap; to repeat verses passionately or intensely.
- To say scornfully.
- "You will die now!", he spat out.
- To eject.
- My computer won't read this DVD. It just keeps spitting it out.
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