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bails out on

bails out on is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 bails out on

What is bails out on the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bails out on is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bail out on.

Words near bails out on in the dictionary

  1. bailouts
  2. bailpieces
  3. bails
  4. bails on
  5. bails out
  6. bails out on
  7. bails up
  8. bailsman
  9. bailsmen
  10. Baily
  11. Baily's beads

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bails out on (page history and authors); bail out on (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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