Usually means: Eject forcefully; vomit; express vehemently.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. spew: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spew: Merriam-Webster
  3. spew: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spew: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spew: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spew: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spew, spew: Wordnik
  8. spew: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. spew: Wiktionary
  10. spew: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. spew: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spew: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. spew: Dictionary.com
  14. spew: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. spew: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. S.P.E.W, SPEW, Spew: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Spew: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. spew: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. spew: Rhymezone
  20. Spew: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. spew: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. spew: FreeDictionary.org
  23. spew: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. spew: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. spew: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spew: Netlingo
  2. spew: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPEW: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. spew: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Spew (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. spew, spew: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. spew: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. S.P.E.W, spew, spew: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To eject forcibly and in a stream,
verb:  (intransitive) To be forcibly ejected.
verb:  (transitive) To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading.
verb:  (intransitive) To be written or spoken voluminously.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To vomit.
verb:  (intransitive) To ejaculate.
verb:  (intransitive, leather-working) To develop a white powder or dark crystals on the surface of finished leather, as a result from improper tanning.
noun:  (slang) Vomit.
noun:  (slang) Ejaculate or ejaculation.
noun:  Nonsense or lies.
noun:  Material that has been ejected in a stream, or the act of spewing.
noun:  A white powder or dark crystals that appear on the surface of improperly tanned leather.
noun:  Adhesive that is squeezed from a joint under pressure and held across the joint by a fillet, thereby strengthening the joint.

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