"spill one's guts" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-spill one's guts.ogg [Australia] Forms: spills one's guts [present, singular, third-person], spilling one's guts [participle, present], spilled one's guts [participle, past], spilled one's guts [past], spilt one's guts [participle, past], spilt one's guts [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*|past2=spilt one's guts}} spill one's guts (third-person singular simple present spills one's guts, present participle spilling one's guts, simple past and past participle spilled one's guts or spilt one's guts)
  1. (slang, idiomatic) To confess, or to divulge secrets, typically speaking freely and at length after a change of motive or an incentive. Tags: idiomatic, slang Categories (topical): Talking Synonyms: spill the beans Translations (confess, or to divulge secrets, typically speaking freely and at length after a change of motive or an incentive): раска́лываться (raskályvatʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), расколо́ться (raskolótʹsja) (english: lit: to split up) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-spill_one's_guts-en-verb-erZYqVKa Disambiguation of Talking: 61 39 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English predicates, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 61 39 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 65 35 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 58 42 Disambiguation of English predicates: 57 43 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 68 32 Disambiguation of 'confess, or to divulge secrets, typically speaking freely and at length after a change of motive or an incentive': 99 1
  2. (slang, idiomatic) To vomit. Tags: idiomatic, slang Related terms: spill the beans, spit it out
    Sense id: en-spill_one's_guts-en-verb-ndNoz1AC

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