Crossword clues for quits
quits
- Admits defeat
- What to call it
- Steps down
- What some call it
- On even terms
- Hangs up one's cleats
- Gives up trying
- Gives two weeks' notice
- What to call it when it's over
- Rage ___ (closes an unresponsive tab in frustration, say)
- Packs it in
- Opts for the pension
- On even terms again
- Leaves — all square
- Hands in one's notice
- Call it ___ (give up)
- Call it ___ (end)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quits \Quits\ (kw[i^]ts), interj. See the Note under Quit, a.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"even" (with another), 1660s; earlier "discharged of a liability" (c.1200), perhaps from Medieval Latin quittus (see quit (adj.)).
Wiktionary
(context colloquial British English) On equal monetary terms; neither owing or being owed. v
(en-third-person singular of: quit)
WordNet
adj. on equal terms by payment or requital; "we're now quits"; "finally quits with the loan"
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "quits".
He is sure to receive the bastinade, who forsakes his colours or quits his post.
Henri Bouvier had provided for her in ice-filled tubs, Silkie threw her hands up and decided to call it quits.
To tell the truth it was much less than what I had given him at Venice, and if he had looked upon his action as paying back a debt we should not have been quits.
He had spent the better part of the afternoon trying to memorize them before calling it quits and heading over to Biscayne Baby for some action.
It is by falling into fiction, therefore, that we generally offend against this rule, of deserting probability, which the historian seldom, if ever, quits, till he forsakes his character and commences a writer of romance.
For whenever a thing changes and quits its proper limits, at once this change of state is the death of that which was before.
She was still grinding on an exercise bike when he called it quits, and stood under the gym's steaming shower, letting the hot water take the long day down the drain.
Following the worst financial year of its life, in which it was forced to cut nearly a quarter of its employees, and facing an uncertain future, Cray Research called it quits.
If a solar-powered hand calculator quits on you, chances are you’.
He stopped reading pony journals—sad, something dies when an old horseplayer quits.
He stopped reading pony journals--sad, something dies when an old horseplayer quits.
Up on the Kanawha I’ve had hand-to-hand fights with ’em, and made ’em cry quits.
When the five kids not on his side begin to groan and act lazy, and a kid he accidentally knocks down gets up with a blurred face and walks away, Rabbit quits readily.
Nay, this power so little belongs to the father by any peculiar right of Nature, but only as he is guardian of his children, that when he quits his care of them he loses his power over them, which goes along with their nourishment and education, to which it is inseparably annexed, and belongs as much to the foster-father of an exposed child as to the natural father of another.
Its long-ago construction crew had tried to make it two-storied and called it quits after propping up a sagging loft-type contri.