put it about
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Verb edit
put it about (third-person singular simple present puts it about, present participle putting it about, simple past and past participle put it about)
- (informal) To disseminate, for example through gossip.
- He put it about that she had been stealing company money.
- (slang) To be sexually promiscuous.
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- 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.