spill out

v : be disgorged; "The crowds spilled out into the streets"

[syn: {spill over}, {pour out}]

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."

[{Jargon File}]

(1995-05-11)