put it about

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English

Verb

put it about

  1. (informal) To disseminate, for example through gossip.
    He put it about that she had been stealing company money.
  2. (slang) To be sexually promiscuous.
    • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas:
      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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