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IPA: /spɪt/

Spits is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in spits (ipsst).

Definitions for spits

noun

1. saliva, especially when ejected.
2. the act of spitting.
3. Entomology.. Also called spittle. the frothy secretion exuded by spittlebugs.
4. a light fall of rain or snow.
5. a pointed rod or bar for thrusting through and holding meat that is to be cooked before or over a fire.
6. any of various rods, pins, or the like used for particular purposes.
7. a narrow point of land projecting into the water.
8. a long, narrow shoal extending from the shore.

Idioms

1. spit and image, Informal. exact likeness; counterpart: Also, spitting image, spit 'n' image.

Verb phrases

1. spit up, to vomit; throw up:

verb (used with object)

1. to eject from the mouth:
2. to throw out or emit like saliva:
3. to set a flame to.
4. to pierce, stab, or transfix, as with a spit; impale on something sharp.
5. to thrust a spit into or through.

verb (used without object)

1. to eject saliva from the mouth; expectorate.
2. to express hatred, contempt, etc., by or as if by ejecting saliva from the mouth.
3. to sputter:
4. to fall in scattered drops or flakes, as rain or snow.

Origin of spits

before 950; (v.) Middle English spitten, Old English spittan; cognate with German (dial.) spitzen to spit; akin to Old English spǣtan to spit, spātl spittle; (noun) Middle English, derivative

Examples for spits

I breathed sloppily through my mouth, hung my head between my legs, and spit every so often.

Wash the meat, wipe it dry, spit it, and cover the fat with paper.

The white editors who wrote both trash articles saw themselves as celebrating black folks, a notion so insulting it makes me spit.

You are no Frenchman, to spit flesh with a wire; but you can shoot, can't you?

We still have a long way to go, but it has improved dramatically since the post Vietnam syndrome when Vets were spit on.

By all that's holy, as a favor to me, spit out the words you have uttered.

Put it on a spit, and roast it till it is tender throughout.

Forgive my candor, though such is my wont, but much like that moose on a spit, Bernie is dead.

Turn the spit often, so that the meat may be equally done on all sides.

While promoting his new film Horns on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon convinced the actor to spit some rhymes for the audience.