VERB
- spit up in an explosive manner
- discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth
- utter with anger or contempt
How To Use spit out In A Sentence
- I managed to spit out a stream of the sanguine liquid before dodging just in time to miss her foot.
- Witnesses report seeing less smoke and ash Wednesday but say the volcano spit out flaming material up to 15 meters into the air.
- A hopeless alcoholic living in a flophouse on the seamy side of town, he was a promising boxer chewed up and spit out by the corrupt amateur circuit.
- Just a little woozy… sane enough, but of course, to spit out the entire chemistry of the substance that fettered us with its silken strands.
- For those of you unfamiliar with this "ancient" form of communication, the telex was only marginally more advanced than smoke signals, and required the typing of a brail-like tape, later fed through the contraption, words supposedly being spit out on the recipients 'machine. Val Brown: Love In The Time Of Electronica
- After a decent interval of licking our wounds and pondering what might have been and where we went wrong, we need to spit out our despair and return - united - to battling those who have for the moment outmaneuvered us.
- The beast was then howling, for it had managed to spit out the shoehorn.
- You'd better to spit out the seeds in your palm, and then put them on the plate.
- Etymology: Middle English skopper - (in compounds), perhaps from Anglo-French * escopoir, from escopir to spit out Think Progress » Analysis: Strong Carbon Cap Would Cut Iran’s Petrodollars By Over $100 Million A Day
- As the hours passed the winemakers spit out metaphors like jacks from a destemmer; they were looking for creative ways to sway the room. How Tierce Riesling Gets Made: Inside the Winemaker's Lab
