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Meaning of put it about | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. To disseminate, for example through gossip.
    informal
  2. To be sexually promiscuous.
    slang

Examples

“He put it about that she had been stealing company money.”
“Didn't stop myself hissing that if Ayrs was ¹⁄₂ as good a husband as he was a manipulator and a larcenist of better men's ideas, his wife might not put it about so much.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

put it down put it mildly put it past put it there put it to put lie to

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