Meaning of put it about | Babel Free

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.”

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