shell out

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A game played on a billiard table, a variation of pool. obsolete,uncountable
    — I have more than once had to lend a commercial money to pay his fare home; as he had played shell-out and lost the lot.
动词 v.
  1. To pay money, to disburse; especially, to pay a great deal of money. ambitransitive,informal
    — Do you think we should shell out for the extra options package?
  2. To use a program's "shell escape" function to execute an unrelated command or to invoke a subsidiary, interactive shell. Unix,especially

词形变化

shells out present,singular,third-person shelling out participle,present shelled out participle,past shelled out past
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