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spit take

noun, verb — 2 senses

spit take

nounalso spelled spit-take
1

Acting, Broadcasting, Entertainment, Film, Lifestyle, Media, Television, Theater A take (recorded performance), generally expressing surprise or disbelief, in which the actor in the act of drinking spits out the drink.

  • When the wombat-riding chimp jumped onto the bar, Smith, who had been enjoying a beer, did a massive spit take.

spit-take

verb
1

To perform a spit take

  • Meanwihle[sic] at Winterfell, another overdone scheme designed mainly to surprise the audience. In the black of her chambers, Sansa brainstorms with Littlefinger what Arya could want. “After she murders you, what does she become?” he asks. To which Sansa does everything but gasp and spit-take, widening her eyes and saying like she’s just realizing it for the first time, “Lady of Winterfell.”2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — authors: page histories for spit take and spit-take.