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Definitions

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spitting image
1. n. (colloquial) The exact likeness (of someone).
Blimey, you're the spitting image of my brother.
Analysis
spitting
1. v. present participle of spit
2. n. (chiefly archaic, medicine) expectoration
3. n. An appearance on the surface of melted silver or platinum allowed to cool slowly, jets of oxygen forming small cones and sometimes throwing up drops of molten metal.
Synonyms: sprouting
spit
1. n. A rod on which meat is grilled (UK English) or broiled (US English).
2. n. A narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula.
3. n. The depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful.
4. v. To impale on a spit.
to spit a loin of veal
image		©
1. n. An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.
2. n. A mental picture of something not real or not present.
3. n. A statue or idol.
4. n. (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image, executable image and image copy.)

Example Sentences

The baby cobras are, so to speak, the spitting image of their parents, and packed with projectile venom.

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