run one's mouth

English

Verb

run one's mouth (third-person singular simple present runs one's mouth, present participle running one's mouth, simple past ran one's mouth, past participle run one's mouth)

1. Alternative form of run off at the mouth
   • 2003, Mike Cooley, "Marry Me":

     Just cause I don't run my mouth don't mean I got nothing to say

   • 2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 11:

     “What was your wife like?” I asked one day. I was really just running my mouth. I was more interested in the small stack of bread he’d bought me.