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bail out on

bail out on verb: to abandon (someone or something).

Verb

bail out on (third-person singular simple present bails out on, present participle bailing out on, simple past and past participle bailed out on)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To abandon (someone or something).
    • But he's just kind of jumped ship. He's bailed out on Basingstoke as a town without even warning us.2004 December 11, Faisal al Yafai, Owen Bowcott and Michael White, “Meet the DUP's new MP ... for Basingstoke”, in The Guardian, page Politics
    Synonyms:
    leave in the lurch, walk out on

Synonyms of bail out on

Forms of bail out on

third-person singular presentbails out on
present participlebailing out on
past participlebailed out on
pastbailed out on

Questions about bail out on

What does bail out on mean?
Bail out on means to abandon (someone or something).
What part of speech is bail out on?
Bail out on is a verb.
What is the past tense of bail out on?
The past tense of bail out on is bailed out on.

Words near bail out on in the dictionary

  1. bail in
  2. bail ins
  3. bail jumping
  4. bail on
  5. bail out
  6. bail out on
  7. bail up
  8. bail-in
  9. bail-ins
  10. bail-out
  11. bail-outs

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