Definitions for quits

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Spelling: [kwits]

IPA: /kwɪts/

Quits is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in quits (iqstu).

Definitions for quits

noun

1. any of various small tropical birds.

Idioms

1. call it quits, to end one's activity, especially temporarily: to abandon an effort.
2. cry quits, to agree to end competition and consider both sides equal:

adjective

1. on equal terms by repayment or retaliation.
2. released from obligation, penalty, etc.; free, clear, or rid (usually followed by of):

verb (used with object)

1. to stop, cease, or discontinue:
2. to depart from; leave (a place or person):
3. to give up or resign; let go; relinquish:
4. to release one's hold of (something grasped).
5. to acquit or conduct (oneself).
6. to free or rid (oneself): to quit oneself of doubts.
7. to clear (a debt); repay.

verb (used without object)

1. to cease from doing something; stop.
2. to give up or resign one's job or position:
3. to depart or leave.
4. to stop trying, struggling, or the like; accept or acknowledge defeat.

Origin of quits

1470-80; perhaps Medieval Latin quittus quit¹

Examples for quits

Then I shall be quits with her and with Mrs. Henry and with Peggy.

Eventually Megan quits her job to pursue acting, and this physical rift mirrors a widening emotional gap between the couple.

So she quits, and takes shelter in the northern Scotland woods, hoping to be left alone.

And you, you made me break my head open; one is just as bad as the other; so, with your leave, we are quits.

We were quits; it was my turn to devote my life, and instead of that I have slain you.

If I hurl my assegai at another, another hurls his assegai at me, and in a measure we are quits.

Rogozin also announced that Russia will call it quits with the International Space Station in 2020.

The groom now quits his former post, and prepares to assist her to mount.

I finish a decent game, type my initials, and decide to call it quits.

Following the release of Nine Types of Light, TV on the Radio thought long and hard about calling it quits.