How to pronounce “spread-eagle”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Lying with arms and legs outstretched and separated.
• (colloquial, humorous) Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; bombastic.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To put into a spread-eagle position, with arms and legs extended and spread.
• (intransitive) To put one's body in a spread eagle.

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Similar Sounds

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