Meaning & use

divvy

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To divide something and share it out among a group, informally.

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They divvied up the pizza slices evenly among the friends.

The team divvied up the chores before the big move.

A note on using this word

Divvy is informal and almost always used with 'up,' as in 'divvy up'; it's common in casual speech but not in formal writing.

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