shell out

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

shell out (third-person singular simple present shells out, present participle shelling out, simple past and past participle shelled out)

1. (slang, transitive, intransitive) To pay money, to disburse; especially, to pay a great deal of money.

   Do you think we should shell out for the extra options package?
2. (computing, especially Unix) To use a program's "shell escape" function to execute an unrelated command or to invoke a subsidiary, interactive shell.

Synonyms

• (pay): cough up, fork out, fork over

Translations

pay money

• French: aligner (fr), banquer (fr), casquer (fr)
• Polish: bulić (pl)
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• Russian: раскоше́ливаться (ru) impf (raskošélivatʹsja), раскоше́литься (ru) pf (raskošélitʹsja)

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• slut hole, sluthole