spool out

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Verb

spool out (third-person singular simple present spools out, present participle spooling out, simple past and past participle spooled out)

  1. (transitive) To appear in succession, as if from a film spool.
    • 2019 January 26, Kitty Empire , “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 April 2019:
      The old songs spool out, reaffirming once again everything that is great about the Streets. "Brace yourself, 'cause this goes deep," runs a line from Turn the Page, pointing up Skinner's ability to grapple with existential dread as well as the cinematic, blow-by-blow accounts of everyday lairiness.