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Dish Out

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Verb

1. administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out

administer or bestow, as in small portions

Example Sentences:
'administer critical remarks to everyone present'
'dole out some money'
'shell out pocket money for the children'
'deal a blow to someone'
'the machine dispenses soft drinks'

2. dish, dish out, dish up, serve, serve up

provide (usually but not necessarily food)

Example Sentences:
'We serve meals for the homeless'
'She dished out the soup at 8 P.M.'
'The entertainers served up a lively show'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Dish Out

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verb informal
1. (tr, adverb)
to distribute
2.  dish it out

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Dish Out

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n.
1.
a. An open, generally shallow concave container for holding, cooking, or serving food.
b. dishes The containers and often the utensils used when eating: took out the dishes and silverware; washed the dishes.
c. A shallow concave container used for purposes other than eating: an evaporating dish.
2. The amount that a dish can hold.
3.
a. The food served or contained in a dish: a dish of ice cream.
b. A particular variety or preparation of food: Sushi is a Japanese dish.
4.
a. A depression similar to that in a shallow concave container for food.
b. The degree of concavity in such a depression.
5. Electronics A dish antenna.
6. Slang A good-looking person, especially an attractive woman.
7. Informal Idle talk; gossip: "plenty of dish about her tattoos, her plastic surgeries, and her ever-younger inamorati" (Louise Kennedy).
v. dished, dish·ing, dish·es
v.tr.
1. To serve (food) in or as if in a dish: dished up the stew.
2. To present: dished up an excellent entertainment.
3. To hollow out; make concave.
4. Informal To gossip about.
5. Chiefly British Slang To ruin, foil, or defeat.
v.intr.
Informal
To talk idly, especially to gossip.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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