spitter
nounEtymology From spit (verb) + -er.
7 senses
1
Someone who spits.
- Fines will be issued to spitters who spit wantonly in public.
- After the SARS outbreak in 2003, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan launched campaigns to discourage public spitting by issuing fines to public spitters.2009, David T. Wong, Salivary Diagnostics, page 107:
2
Vulgar Someone who spits out semen during oral sex.
- On the stage with the RZA to the Gravediggaz GZA used to say I was his favorite spitter2010, Killah Priest, “Priest History”, in The 3 Day Theory:
- What you tryna be Vito? Well there's rules to this shit Don't get clapped, y'all ain't real spitters, y'all lips chapped2012, Joey Badass featuring Capital Steez, “Killuminati”, in 1999:
5
A small shower (of rain), a spatter.
- A zigzag of lightning fretted the eastern horizon in a brilliant greenish flash, sharply outlining the sea-line; and, as a solemn, hollow, distant peal reverberated, a spitter of rain fell. There was not a breath of wind, and the whack-whacking and spits of flame from the warships came threatening over the darkening sea.1916, The Wireless Age, page 19:
- [A] spitter of rain hit the leaves, increasing to a drenching rush.2025 March 25, Jade Linwood, Beast, Rebellion Publishing Ltd, →ISBN:
6
Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports Synonym of spitball.
- Coach says no throwing any spitters.
7
An improvised and portable spittoon, typically a beverage bottle repurposed.
- with a spitter in the console of his Camaro
- Derived terms
- spitters are quitters