Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

call it quits

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.39 in modern English

Syllables: cal-l it quits
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To conclude; to quit or stop an activity, especially after applying oneself to it for a significant period of time.

verb

To declare debts resolved to one another.

Example Sentences

"One afternoon, after twenty minutes of desperate efforts to annihilate each other according to set rules that did not permit kicking, striking below the belt, nor hitting when one was down, Cheese-Face, panting for breath and reeling, offered to call it quits."
"The West's longest-serving foreign minister called it quits last week."

Inflected Forms

calls it quits (present, singular) calling it quits (participle, present) called it quits (participle, past) called it quits (past)

Synonyms

call it a day call it even

Questions

What does call it quits mean?: To conclude; to quit or stop an activity, especially after applying oneself to it for a significant period of time.

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