shell out
verb
- to pay
Wiktionary
noun
- A game played on a billiard table, a variation of pool.
“I have more than once had to lend a commercial money to pay his fare home; as he had played shell-out and lost the lot.”
verb
- To pay money, to disburse; especially, to pay a great deal of money.
“Do you think we should shell out for the extra options package?”
“TAXPAYERS are shelling out more than €2m annually to pay for the salaries of 10 high-profile CEOs employed in commercial semi-state bodies.”
- To use a program's "shell escape" function to execute an unrelated command or to invoke a subsidiary, interactive shell.