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put it about

put it about verb: to disseminate, for example through gossip.

Verb

put it about (third-person singular simple present puts it about, present participle putting it about, simple past and past participle put it about)

  1. (informal) To disseminate, for example through gossip.
    • He put it about that she had been stealing company money.
  2. (slang) To be sexually promiscuous.
    • Didn't stop myself hissing that if Ayrs was ¹⁄₂ as good a husband as he was a manipulator and a larcenist of better men's ideas, his wife might not put it about so much.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN

Forms of put it about

third-person singular presentputs it about
present participleputting it about
past participleput it about
pastput it about

Questions about put it about

What does put it about mean?
Put it about means to disseminate, for example through gossip.
What part of speech is put it about?
Put it about is a verb.
What is the past tense of put it about?
The past tense of put it about is put it about.

Words near put it about in the dictionary

  1. put into context
  2. put into effect
  3. put into one's own head
  4. put into practice
  5. put into words
  6. put it about
  7. put it down
  8. put it mildly
  9. put it off on
  10. put it past
  11. put it there

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