Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To spin out; finish; exhaust.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To spin out; to finish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To spin out;
finish ;exhaust . - verb transitive To exceed in spinning; exceed in spinning thread.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The SPIN will outspin itself when you least expect it.
The Commons: You can have it both ways or no way at all - Beyond The Commons - Macleans.ca 2009
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You've got to get up pretty early to outspin Bob Wexler.
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He was very ingenious, and he knew how to turn a top out of beech or maple that would outspin anything you could get in a store.
Boy Life Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells William Dean Howells 1878
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Still convinced some chicanery is afoot with that CEO, the guinea pigs break out of captivity thanks to a fortuitous appearance by Loudon Wainwright III and his gender-roles-loving grandchildren (the girl adopts Penelope Cruz so she can put on make-up and the boy goes with Tracy Morgan in order to subject him to his sociopathic behavior) and reconvene with their leader Ben who has just designed hamster balls which can outrun (outspin?)
Cinema Blend Feeds 2009
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Trying to outspin your opponent on falsehood is not part of my idea of good public policy.
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