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spill one's guts en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic, slang) 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.
2. (idiomatic, slang) To vomit.
   • 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.
   • He suddenly wanted to vomit, to spill his guts right here on Lake Street in front of the thousands watching. 1994, Garth Battista, The runner's literary companion: great stories and poems about running, Breakaway Books, page 102:
   • A stench preceded a green cloud that almost caused the wizard to spill his guts. 2006, Arthur Roberts, The Sorcerer's Song and the Cat's Meow,, page 167:

Forms

Relateds

spit it out · spill the beans

Synonyms

spill the beans

Translations (4)

ru раска́лываться (confess, or to divulge secrets, typically speaking freely and at length after a change of motive or an incentive) · pl puścić farbę (confess, or to divulge secrets, typically speaking freely and at length after a change of motive or an incentive) · pl puszczać farbę (confess, or to divulge secrets, typically speaking freely and at length after a change of motive or an incentive) · ru расколо́ться (confess, or to divulge secrets, typically speaking freely and at length after a change of motive or an incentive)