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bailing out on

bailing out on is the present participle and gerund of bail out on.

Meaning of bail out on

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

Questions about bailing out on

What is bailing out on the present participle and gerund of?
Bailing out on is the present participle and gerund of bail out on.

Words near bailing out on in the dictionary

  1. bailiffwick
  2. bailiffwicks
  3. bailing
  4. bailing on
  5. bailing out
  6. bailing out on
  7. bailing up
  8. bailings
  9. bailival
  10. bailivate
  11. bailivates

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