Usually means: Pay money, often reluctantly.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. shell out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shell out: Merriam-Webster
  3. shell out: Collins English Dictionary
  4. shell out: Vocabulary.com
  5. shell (sth) out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. shell out: Wiktionary
  7. shell out: Dictionary.com
  8. shell out: Rhymezone
  9. shell out: FreeDictionary.org
  10. shell out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. shell out: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shell out: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shell out: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. shell out: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. shell out: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shell out: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shell out: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. shell out: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (shell out)

verb:  (informal, ambitransitive) To pay money, to disburse; especially, to pay a great deal of money.
verb:  (computing, especially Unix) To use a program's "shell escape" function to execute an unrelated command or to invoke a subsidiary, interactive shell.
noun:  (obsolete) A game played on a billiard table, a variation of pool.

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