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spit-takes

spit-takes is the plural of spit-take.

Meaning of spit-take

Verb

spit-take (third-person singular simple present spit-takes, present participle spit-taking, simple past spit-taked or spit-took, past participle spit-taked or spit-took or spit-taken)

  1. To perform a spit take
    • Meanwihle[sic] at Winterfell, another overdone scheme designed mainly to surprise the audience. In the black of her chambers, Sansa brainstorms with Littlefinger what Arya could want. “After she murders you, what does she become?” he asks. To which Sansa does everything but gasp and spit-take...2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club

Questions about spit-takes

What is spit-takes the plural of?
Spit-takes is the plural of spit-take.

Words near spit-takes in the dictionary

  1. spit-roasting
  2. spit-roastings
  3. spit-roasts
  4. spit-spot
  5. spit-take
  6. spit-takes
  7. spit-up
  8. spit-ups
  9. spital
  10. Spitalfields
  11. spitalhouse

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spit-takes (page history and authors); spit-take (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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