quits

quits
/kwits/, adj.
1. on equal terms by repayment or retaliation.
2. call it quits,
a. to end one's activity, esp. temporarily: At 10 o'clock I decided to call it quits for the day.
b. to abandon an effort.
3. cry quits, to agree to end competition and consider both sides equal: It became too dark to continue play and they decided to cry quits.
[1470-80; perh. < ML quittus QUIT1]

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