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spit

 
 
/spɪt/ verb [I, T] (present participle spitting, past tense and past participle spat, also US spit)

Translation

to force out the liquid in your mouth
tükürmek
I don't like to see people spitting in public. He took a mouthful of coffee and then spat it out.5591631
Spit it out! informal used to tell someone to say more quickly what it is they want to say
Dökül bakalım!', 'Kus bakalım!', 'Hadi konuş!'
Come on, spit it out!1142
(Definition of spit verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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