Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: quits
IPA transcription: [kw'ɪts]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: quits
    Meaning: on equal terms by payment or requital; "we're now quits"; "finally quits with the loan"
Usage examples
  • In a good many ways, we're quits.
  • They furnish me with some amusement, and I give them something quite new to talk about, so we are quits.
  • If I had had an equal admiration for his kind of batting we should have been quits, but I had not; at least not then.
  • To take an example: a man is standing unsuspectingly in the street and ten others come up armed and beat him; he draws his sword and quits himself like a man, but the number of his antagonists makes it impossible for him to effect his purpose and avenge himself; this man suffers an offence but not an insult.