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spitter

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

  1. One who puts meat on a spit.
  2. Someone who spits.
  3. A young deer whose antlers are beginning to shoot or become sharp.
  4. Someone who spits out semen during oral sex.
  5. Rapper, emcee.
  6. Synonym of spitting cobra.
  7. A small shower (of rain), a spatter.
  8. Synonym of spitball.
  9. An improvised and portable spittoon, typically a beverage bottle repurposed.

Equivalents

Françaisspitter
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Examples

“Near-synonyms: brocket, knobber, knobbler, pricket”
“Fines will be issued to spitters who spit⟳ wantonly in public.”
“After the SARS outbreak in 2003, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan launched campaigns to discourage public spitting by issuing fines to public spitters.”
“On the stage⟳ with the RZA to the Gravediggaz GZA used to say⟳ I was his favorite spitter”
“What you tryna be Vito? Well there's rules to this shit Don't get⟳ clapped, y'all ain't real spitters, y'all lips chapped”
“A zigzag of lightning fretted the eastern horizon in a brilliant greenish flash⟳, sharply outlining the sea-line; and, as a solemn, hollow, distant peal reverberated, a spitter of rain⟳ fell. There was not a breath of wind, and the whack-whacking and spits of flame from the warships came threatening over the darkening sea.”
“[A] spitter of rain⟳ hit the leaves, increasing to a drenching rush⟳.”
“Coach says no throwing any spitters.”
“with a spitter in the console of his Camaro”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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