Definition of Deal out

1. Verb. Administer or bestow, as in small portions. "They deal out the people the food"; "The machine dispenses soft drinks"


Definition of Deal out

1. Verb. (transitive card games) to not deal cards to someone who is leaving a game. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deal Out

deagglomerate
deagglomerated
deagglomerates
deagglomerating
deagglomeration
deagglomerations
deair
deaired
deairing
deairs
deal
deal-maker
deal-makers
deal breaker
deal in
deal out (current term)
deal with
dealate
dealated
dealates
dealation
dealations
dealbate
dealbation
dealbreaker
dealbreakers
dealcoholization
deale
dealed
dealer

Literary usage of Deal out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"his thumb to his hand and spanked him until his arm was too tired to deal out one more wallop. Alan made his way down to the living room, the floor streaked ..."

2. The Canadian War of 1812 by Charles Prestwood Lucas (1906)
"... it would be idle to maintain that the Kentuckians did not deal out to the Indians much the same measure of wholesale brutality as the Indians dealt to ..."

3. A Biographical Sketch of Henry A. Wise: With a History of the Political by James Pinkney Hambleton (1856)
"I certainly think I will be able, as I should strive, to deal out equal and exact justice to all men of all parties, Democrats and Whigs, ..."

4. Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1888)
"Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson. single hand to raise edifices of piety like fortified cities, to appropriate manors to religious uses, or deal out such ..."

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