CALL IT QUITS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does call it quits mean? 

• CALL IT QUITS (verb)
  The verb CALL IT QUITS has 1 sense:

1. stop doing what one is doing

  Familiarity information: CALL IT QUITS used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALL IT QUITS (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stop doing what one is doing

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

call it a day; call it quits

Context example:

At midnight, the student decided to call it quits and closed his books

Hypernyms (to "call it quits" is one way to...):

cease; discontinue; give up; lay off; quit; stop (put an end to a state or an activity)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

One afternoon, after twenty minutes of desperate efforts to annihilate each other according to set rules that did not permit kicking, striking below the belt, nor hitting when one was down, Cheese-Face, panting for breath and reeling, offered to call it quits.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)