Meanings
verbput it about (third-person singular simple present puts it about, present participle putting it about, simple past and past participle put it about)
present singular third person puts it about · participle present putting it about
- informalTo disseminate, for example through gossip.
He put it about that she had been stealing company money.
- slangTo be sexually promiscuous.
Didn't stop myself hissing that if Ayrs was ¹⁄₂ as good a husband as he was a manipulator and a larcenist of better men's ideas, his wife might not put it about so much.
2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN
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