Word.ws English Dictionary

shouts the odds

shouts the odds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shout the odds.

Meaning of shout the odds

Verb

shout the odds (third-person singular simple present shouts the odds, present participle shouting the odds, simple past and past participle shouted the odds)

  1. (UK, colloquial) To talk loudly or boastfully; to make a verbal fuss.
    • He's shouting the odds at the Airdrie players when the Ref nods to two Police. And he's still shouting and bawling when the Police drag him away backwards up the terraces and make him stand in the damp shade and dripping rain.2011, Des Dillon, Return Of The Busby Babes, page 107

Questions about shouts the odds

What is shouts the odds the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Shouts the odds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shout the odds.

Words near shouts the odds in the dictionary

  1. shouts
  2. shouts down
  3. shouts fire in a crowded theater
  4. shouts from the rooftops
  5. shouts out
  6. shouts the odds
  7. shouts-out
  8. shouty
  9. Shouyang
  10. shovable
  11. shovavim

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shouts the odds (page history and authors); shout the odds (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “shouts the odds.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shouts_the_odds. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.