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splits the blanket

splits the blanket is the third-person singular simple present indicative of split the blanket.

Meaning of split the blanket

Verb

split the blanket (third-person singular simple present splits the blanket, present participle splitting the blanket, simple past and past participle split the blanket)

  1. To terminate a marriage or marriage-like relationship; to divorce or permanently separate.
    • It mattered to no one that he already had a wife, a white woman named Eliza Allen: they'd split the blanket and dwelt apart, and among the Indians, the Indian marriage took, though not for life nor even long.1995, John B. Sanford, A Book of American Women, →ISBN, page 33
  2. (broadly) To dissolve a partnership.
    • "Well, I reckon that splits the blanket," said Will. "Now he knows we ain't buyin' his shakedown, I reckon he'll loose them pet Comanches on us."1992, Ralph Compton, The Goodnight Trail: The Trail Drive, →ISBN, page 24

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Splits the blanket is the third-person singular simple present indicative of split the blanket.

Words near splits the blanket in the dictionary

  1. splits hairs
  2. splits off
  3. splits on a rock
  4. splits one's sides
  5. splits the baby
  6. splits the blanket
  7. splits the breeze
  8. splits the difference
  9. splits the G
  10. splits the house
  11. splits the sheets

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