spit

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He's gonna get eaten up and spit out by the behemoth.

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Quick take

a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of spit gathered in one view.

noun

a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea

noun

a clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches

noun

a skewer for holding meat over a fire

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for spit.

noun

a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea

noun

a clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches

noun

a skewer for holding meat over a fire

noun

the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva)

verb

expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth; "The father of the victim spat at the alleged murderer"

See also: ptyalize, ptyalise, spew, spue

verb

utter with anger or contempt

verb

rain gently; "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick"

See also: sprinkle, spatter, patter, pitter-patter

verb

drive a skewer through; "skewer the meat for the BBQ"

Example sentences

He's gonna get eaten up and spit out by the behemoth.

Take an Indian to US or Australia and he will not spit or litter.

" Python 2 just allowed to take crap in and spit crap out. Python 3 requires you to do something more complicated when crap comes in.

I hate to spit cliches, but is this where my tax dollars go?For me, govt and internet should almost be like church and state.

A "x" star restaurant can continue to function despite serving cockroaches or hair strands in their dishes.

I can spit out a page from a design pretty quick, but getting it to look consistent across four or five different browsers takes forever.

You have to assume some pretty extreme values to make cost-effectiveness criterion spit out 'nobody should be thinking about AI!

Now how do I convince this query-generation framework to spit that out so that I don't have to pull back all the results and do the sorting in memory?

Even if it is part of the backend it has nothing to do with the app, so i 'll go ahead and guess either the writer is clueless, or they spit out random trendy jargon in their articles.

10gen did a great job of marketing to developers, but unfortunately they seemed to spit in the face of DBAs and Ops people a long time ago by proclaiming them to be unnecessary and archaic.