QUITS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quits mean? 

• QUITS (adjective)
  The adjective QUITS has 1 sense:

1. on equal terms by payment or requital

  Familiarity information: QUITS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUITS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

On equal terms by payment or requital

Context example:

finally quits with the loan

Similar:

equal (having the same quantity, value, or measure as another)

 Context examples 

For example, a chronic cough may get better when a person quits smoking.

(Chronic cough, NCI Dictionary)

We must consider what Miss Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Nicotine cravings are common after a person quits smoking and may come and go over time.

(Craving, NCI Dictionary)

One afternoon, after twenty minutes of desperate efforts to annihilate each other according to set rules that did not permit kicking, striking below the belt, nor hitting when one was down, Cheese-Face, panting for breath and reeling, offered to call it quits.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)