put it about
verb1
Informal To disseminate, for example through gossip.
- He put it about that she had been stealing company money.
2
Slang To be sexually promiscuous.
- 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.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN:
- Related terms
- put about, put oneself about