"spit facts" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-spit facts.wav Forms: spits facts [present, singular, third-person], spitting facts [participle, present], spit facts [participle, past], spit facts [past], spat facts [participle, past], spat facts [past]
Etymology: spit (“to rap, to utter”) + facts. Head templates: {{en-verb|spit<,,spit:spat> facts}} spit facts (third-person singular simple present spits facts, present participle spitting facts, simple past and past participle spit facts or spat facts)
  1. (slang) To utter a statement, either of fact or opinion, that the speaker emphatically agrees with. Tags: slang Synonyms: spit, spit straight facts
    Sense id: en-spit_facts-en-verb-zVt5F-me Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "spit (“to rap, to utter”) + facts.",
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      "form": "spits facts",
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        "singular",
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    },
    {
      "form": "spitting facts",
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        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "spit facts",
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    },
    {
      "form": "spit facts",
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    },
    {
      "form": "spat facts",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spat facts",
      "tags": [
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  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "text": "He may be a little deranged, but when he talks about politics my guy is spitting facts.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 July 28, Shaquille O'Neal (lyrics and music), “LaVar Ball Diss Track”:",
          "text": "Dude's talking loud, I don’t understand\n Walk around like they the true big baller, damn\n How you think that? I'm about to spit facts",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 November 8, Michael DiRocco, “Jalen Ramsey called A.J. Green 'weak,' 'soft' to get under WR's skin”, in ESPN:",
          "text": "I told him almost every play that he was weak, that he was soft. Them are straight facts. He just can't handle the truth. It's facts. I told him his time was almost up. I told him that it was easy, which it was. He had one catch for 6 yards. I was just out there spitting facts to him. He got mad.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 June 1, Lillian Gissen, “The breakout stars of the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial”, in Daily Mail:",
          "text": "Kate Moss came, spat facts, called Amber Heard a liar in front of thousands of people and left. Queen behavior if you ask me.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To utter a statement, either of fact or opinion, that the speaker emphatically agrees with."
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        "(slang) To utter a statement, either of fact or opinion, that the speaker emphatically agrees with."
      ],
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          "word": "spit"
        },
        {
          "word": "spit straight facts"
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        "singular",
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    },
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          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 July 28, Shaquille O'Neal (lyrics and music), “LaVar Ball Diss Track”:",
          "text": "Dude's talking loud, I don’t understand\n Walk around like they the true big baller, damn\n How you think that? I'm about to spit facts",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 November 8, Michael DiRocco, “Jalen Ramsey called A.J. Green 'weak,' 'soft' to get under WR's skin”, in ESPN:",
          "text": "I told him almost every play that he was weak, that he was soft. Them are straight facts. He just can't handle the truth. It's facts. I told him his time was almost up. I told him that it was easy, which it was. He had one catch for 6 yards. I was just out there spitting facts to him. He got mad.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 June 1, Lillian Gissen, “The breakout stars of the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial”, in Daily Mail:",
          "text": "Kate Moss came, spat facts, called Amber Heard a liar in front of thousands of people and left. Queen behavior if you ask me.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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