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tell on

verb

Meaning

  1. (usually childish) To inform on, to rat out; to tell a person in authority that someone else has done something wrong.
  2. To cause visible strain to.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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