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What does shell out mean?

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Verb
  1. (informal) To pay money, to disburse; especially, to pay a great deal of money.
  2. (computing) To use a program's "shell escape" function to execute an unrelated command or to invoke a subsidiary, interactive shell.
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Despite my earlier misgivings, this place is a find for those ready to shell out serious gelt.
There must be thousands of gullible theatre-going buffoons who'd happily shell out for a piece of souvenir art.
It will have an extractor to pull the fired shell out of the chamber, and an ejector to kick it out of the gun.
Instead of using explosives to propel a shell out of a gun barrel, a rail gun uses magnetism to speed a projectile along two rails.
If none of this appeals to you, you can even shell out for a custom-made action figure of yourself.
And if I ask, she'll turn on the waterworks, and then I have to shell out more money to buy tissues.

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