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spitless

spitless adjective: without spit or spitting.

Adjective (1)

spitless (not comparable)

  1. Without spit or spitting.
    • Black tracks on the magneto, a hairline crack in the flywheel casing, pitted points or a spitless exhaust — all are clues to potential conkouts1965, Popular Mechanics, volume 123, number 3, page 140

Adjective (2)

spitless (not comparable)

  1. (euphemistic) Greatly frightened.

Origin of spitless

From spit + -less.

From shitless.

Questions about spitless

What does spitless mean?
Spitless means without spit or spitting.
What part of speech is spitless?
Spitless is an adjective.

Words near spitless in the dictionary

  1. spitishly
  2. spitkit
  3. spitkits
  4. Spitler
  5. Spitlers
  6. spitless
  7. spitoon
  8. spitoons
  9. spitpoison
  10. spitpoisons
  11. spitroast

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