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Shell out

noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A game played on a billiard table, a variation of pool. obsolete, uncountable

    "I have more than once had to lend a commercial money to pay his fare home; as he had played shell-out and lost the lot."

Verb
  1. 1
    To pay money, to disburse; especially, to pay a great deal of money. ambitransitive, informal

    "Do you think we should shell out for the extra options package?"

  2. 2
    administer or bestow, as in small portions wordnet
  3. 3
    To use a program's "shell escape" function to execute an unrelated command or to invoke a subsidiary, interactive shell. Unix, especially

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