spill out
— phrasal verb with spill uk/spɪl/us/spɪl/verb [ I or T, usually + adv/prep ] spilled or UK also spilt, spilled or UK also spilt
to flow or fall out of a container:
All the shopping had spilled out of my bag.
The contents of the truck spilled out across the road.
If people spill out of a place, large numbers of them come out of it:
People were spilling out of the wine bar onto the street.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Departing
- abandon
- absquatulate
- backward
- be ready to roll idiom
- bog
- desertion
- drive
- go down
- hit
- parting
- piss
- push along
- push off
- ready
- road
- run
- run away
- sally
- walk out
- without (so much as) a backward glance idiom
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