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Verb: spill the beans
  1. Divulge confidential information or secrets
    "Be careful--his secretary spills the beans"
    - let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out

Derived forms: spills the beans, spilling the beans, spilt the beans

Type of: break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, unwrap

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