sort (out)

Definitions

General English

• phrasal verb
  (written as sort out)
  to put things in order or in groups
• phrasal verb
  (written as sort out)
  to collect or select things of a particular kind from a mixed group of things

Commerce

• phrasal verb
  (written as sort out)
  to settle a problem

Slang

• verb to beat up. An innocuous euphemism describing a brutal reality, in keeping with a tendency of London working-class slang toward menacing understatement.
• verb to have sex with. A masculine vulgarism with overtones of depersonalisation and brusqueness.

Nearby Definitions of “sort (out)”

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Contexts for “sort (out)”

5 definitions in context
• General English
• Commerce
• Slang