Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A faucet.
- noun A wooden faucet placed in the bunghole of a cask.
- noun The male end of a segment of pipe.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small peg or plug designed to be driven into a gimlet-hole in a cask through which, when open, the contained liquor is drawn off; hence, by extension, any plug fitting into a faucet used for drawing off liquor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; also, the plug of a faucet or cock.
- noun a joint for uniting pipes, formed by the insertion of the end of one pipe, or pipe fitting, into a socket at the end of another.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
pin orpeg used to stop thevent in acask - noun The plug of a
faucet orcock . - noun A faucet. (Appalachian)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir
- noun a plug for a bunghole in a cask
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"The spigot is stopping Nov. 2," he says, when voters will be sending a message to Congress.
Ehrlich vs. O'Malley -- Maryland governor debate liveblog Mike DeBonis 2010
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The truth about paid media: Paid media works, but only so long as the money spigot is turned on and gushing.
Kirk Cheyfitz: Advertising's Future Is 3 Simple Words: Paid. Owned. Earned. Kirk Cheyfitz 2010
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The truth about paid media: Paid media works, but only so long as the money spigot is turned on and gushing.
Kirk Cheyfitz: Advertising's Future Is 3 Simple Words: Paid. Owned. Earned. Kirk Cheyfitz 2010
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The truth about paid media: Paid media works, but only so long as the money spigot is turned on and gushing.
Kirk Cheyfitz: Advertising's Future Is 3 Simple Words: Paid. Owned. Earned. Kirk Cheyfitz 2010
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* If the Saudi oil spigot is shut off, by terrorism or by political revolution, the effect on the global economy, and particularly on the economy of the United States, will be devastating.
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* If the Saudi oil spigot is shut off, by terrorism or by political revolution, the effect on the global economy, and particularly on the economy of the United States, will be devastating.
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They’re still frothing at the mouth over 9/11 and want to kill as many brown people as possible before the spigot is shut off.
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Instead of holding back -- working with a fragile amount of space and condensing language to make effective and subtle suggestions -- I open up the word spigot and, in doing so, the fictional world of the story.
Anis Shivani: Short Stories Versus Novels: What Is Unique About The Short Story Form? Anis Shivani 2010
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Instead of holding back -- working with a fragile amount of space and condensing language to make effective and subtle suggestions -- I open up the word spigot and, in doing so, the fictional world of the story.
Anis Shivani: Short Stories Versus Novels: What Is Unique About The Short Story Form? Anis Shivani 2010
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Collecting rainwater from the gutter into a bucket with a spigot could be a spiffy way to get some clean water - or a fast way to gather some watered-down bird poop in a big tub.
chained_bear commented on the word spigot
Growing up, I always heard this pronounced as "spicket." I hate that.
February 21, 2007
reesetee commented on the word spigot
Hmm. Me too, but I liked it. :-)
February 21, 2007
pterodactyl commented on the word spigot
See this map -- spigot is currently winning the popularity contest against spicket.
April 11, 2008