bail out
Meaning
- (transitive) To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail money.
- (transitive) To remove water from a boat by scooping it out.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To rescue, especially financially.
- (intransitive, usually, with-of) To exit an aircraft while in flight.
- (idiomatic, intransitive, slang) To leave (or not attend at all) a place or a situation, especially quickly or when the situation has become undesirable; to abandon (something).
- (idiomatic, intransitive, slang, with-on) To abandon (someone) when that person faces difficulties.
- (colloquial, idiomatic, intransitive, with-of) To sell all or part of one's holdings in stocks, real estate, a business, etc.
- (intransitive, with-of) To make an unscheduled voluntary termination of an underwater dive, usually implying the use of an alternative breathing gas supply.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To fail badly; to fall off a skateboard.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To abandon one's surfboard when faced with a large or perilous wave.
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