Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context idiomatic English) To pay money, to disburse ; especially, to pay a great deal of money. 2 (context computing especially Unix English) To use a program's "shell escape" function to execute an unrelated command or to invoke a subsidiary, interactive shell.
WordNet
v. administer or bestow, as in small portions; "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone" [syn: distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, lot, dispense, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out]
Usage examples of "shell out".
Even better, a bolt that passed down the cannon's bore would detonate the shell out of sequence, turning it into a miniature fusion bomb instead of a directed-energy weapon.
Only two armored walls and the full weight of the engine had kept the enemy shell out of the fighting compartment.
Bubba got Half Shell out and she jumped into the back of his Jeep.
When Old Borden dug in his pocket to shell out for Lizzie's trip to Europe, the eye of God on the pyramid blinked to see daylight, but no extravagance is too excessive for the miser's younger daughter who is the wild card in his house and, it seems, can have anything she wants, play ducks and drakes with her father's silver dollars if it so pleases her.
Dora still remembers the time you fingered a Class A shell out of my territory and she’.
Dora still remembers the time you fingered a Class A shell out of my territory and shes in one of her moods now.
Cory and I were still rooting the odd live shell out of the flowers.