spitter
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From spit (“rod; skewer”) + -er.
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]spitter (plural spitters)
Translations
[edit]young deer
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]spitter (plural spitters)
- Someone who spits.
- Fines will be issued to spitters who spit wantonly in public.
- 2009, David T. Wong, Salivary Diagnostics, page 107:
- After the SARS outbreak in 2003, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan launched campaigns to discourage public spitting by issuing fines to public spitters.
- (baseball) Synonym of spitball.
- Coach says no throwing any spitters.
- (herpetology, slang) Synonym of spitting cobra.
- An improvised and portable spittoon, typically a beverage bottle repurposed.
- with a spitter in the console of his Camaro
Derived terms
[edit]- spitters are quitters (vulgar)
Translations
[edit]one that spits
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baseball sense — see spitball