put it about

English

Verb

put it about (third-person singular simple present puts it about, present participle putting it about, simple past and past participle put it about)

  1. (informal) To disseminate, for example through gossip.
    He put it about that she had been stealing company money.
  2. (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.
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