SHELL OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shell out mean? 

• SHELL OUT (verb)
  The verb SHELL OUT has 1 sense:

1. administer or bestow, as in small portions

  Familiarity information: SHELL OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHELL OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Administer or bestow, as in small portions

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

administer; allot; deal; deal out; dish out; dispense; distribute; dole out; lot; mete out; parcel out; shell out

Context example:

the machine dispenses soft drinks

Hypernyms (to "shell out" is one way to...):

give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shell out"):

allot; assign; portion (give out)

reallot (allot again)

deal (distribute cards to the players in a game)

apply; give (give or convey physically)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody