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Reel off   /ril ɔf/   Listen
Reel off

verb
1.
Unwind from or as if from a reel.  Synonym: unreel.
2.
Recite volubly or extravagantly.  Synonyms: rattle down, rattle off, roll off, spiel off.






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"Reel off" Quotes from Famous Books



... greeted his parade of so many musty and faded commonplaces. But Rafael was not to be intimidated. He had gotten away with an hour almost! Forward, to "Section Two" of the outline, the part about the great national and Christian epic! And he began to reel off visions of the cave of Covadonga; the fantastic tree of the Reconquest "where the warrior hung up his sword, the poet his harp," and so on and so on, for everybody hung up something there; seven ...
— The Torrent - Entre Naranjos • Vicente Blasco Ibanez



Words linked to "Reel off" :   roll off, reel, spiel off, unreel, recite, rattle off



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