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spool out

spool out verb: to appear in succession, as if from a film spool.

Verb

spool out (third-person singular simple present spools out, present participle spooling out, simple past and past participle spooled out)

  1. (transitive) To appear in succession, as if from a film spool.
    • The old songs spool out, reaffirming once again everything that is great about the Streets. "Brace yourself, 'cause this goes deep," runs a line from Turn the Page, pointing up [Mike] Skinner's ability to grapple with existential dread as well as the cinematic, blow-by-blow accounts of everyday...2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC...

Forms of spool out

third-person singular presentspools out
present participlespooling out
past participlespooled out
pastspooled out

Questions about spool out

What does spool out mean?
Spool out means to appear in succession, as if from a film spool.
What part of speech is spool out?
Spool out is a verb.
What is the past tense of spool out?
The past tense of spool out is spooled out.

Words near spool out in the dictionary

  1. spool brush
  2. spool brushes
  3. spool cannon
  4. spool cannons
  5. spool down
  6. spool out
  7. spool up
  8. spool-and-line
  9. spoolable
  10. spooldown
  11. spooled

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