chill out

v : become quiet or calm, esp. after a state of agitation;

"After the fight both men need to cool off." "It took a

while after the baby was born for things to settle down

again." [syn: {calm}, {calm down}, {cool off}, {simmer

down}, {settle down}, {cool it}]

shell out

[Unix] To spawn an interactive subshell from within a program

(e.g. a mailer or editor). "Bang foo runs foo in a subshell,

while bang alone shells out."

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(1995-05-11)