shell out
verb, noun
Forms shells out shelling out shelled out
- verb (informal, ambitransitive) To pay money, to disburse; especially, to pay a great deal of money. “Do you think we should shell out for the extra options package?”
- verb (computing, especially Unix) To use a program's "shell escape" function to execute an unrelated command or to invoke a subsidiary, interactive shell.
- noun (obsolete) A game played on a billiard table, a variation of pool.
Synonyms
cough up fork out fork over distribute administer mete out deal parcel out lot dispense deal out dish out allot dole out
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