Usually means: Eject saliva from the mouth.
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We found 54 dictionaries that define the word spit:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. spit: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spit: Merriam-Webster
  3. spit, spit, spit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spit, spit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spit: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spit: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spit, spit: Wordnik
  8. spit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. SPIT, spit: Wiktionary
  10. spit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. spit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spit: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. spit: Dictionary.com
  14. spit (n.), spit (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. spit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Spit (Album), Spit (Kittie), Spit (album), Spit (archaeology), Spit (card game), Spit (cooking aide), Spit (disambiguation), Spit (landform), Spit (nightclub), Spit, The Spit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Spit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. spit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. spit: Rhymezone
  20. spit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. spit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. spit: FreeDictionary.org
  23. spit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. The Spit: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. spit: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. spit: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BuzzWhack (No longer online)
  2. Spit (disambiguation), The Spit, spit: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPIT: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. Spit (disambiguation), The Spit, spit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. spit: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Spit: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Spit: Scleroderma
  5. spit: Medical dictionary
  6. Spit: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SPIT: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. The Spit, spit: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. spit, spit, spit, spit, spit: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. spit: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Spit: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  4. The Spit: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spit: Card Games

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Spit: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire.
noun:  (geography) A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula.
verb:  (transitive) To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object.
verb:  (transitive) To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth.
verb:  (impersonal) To rain or snow slightly.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To utter (something) violently.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a spitting sound, like an angry cat.
verb:  (transitive, slang, hip-hop) To rap, to utter.
verb:  (intransitive, slang, humorous) (in the form spitting) To spit facts; to tell the truth.
noun:  (uncountable) Saliva, especially when expectorated.
noun:  (countable) An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow.
noun:  A person who exactly resembles someone else (usually in set phrases; see spitting image).
noun:  (uncountable) Synonym of slam (“card game”)
noun:  The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade.
noun:  The amount of soil that a spade holds; a spadeful.
verb:  (transitive, dialectal) To dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough.
verb:  (transitive, dialectal) To plant (something) using a spade.
verb:  (intransitive, dialectal) To dig, to spade.
noun:  (Internet) Abbreviation of spam over Internet telephony.

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