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right off the reel

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reel

1  [reel]
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–noun
1. a cylinder, frame, or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or pay out something.
2. a rotatory device attached to a fishing rod at the butt, for winding up or letting out the line.
3. Photography.
a. a spool on which film, esp. motion-picture film, is wound.
b. a roll of motion-picture film.
c. a holder for roll film in a developing tank.
4. a quantity of something wound on a reel.
5. Chiefly British. a spool of sewing thread; a roller or bobbin of sewing thread.
–verb (used with object)
6. to wind on a reel, as thread, yarn, etc.
7. to unwind (silk filaments) from a cocoon.
8. to pull or draw by winding a line on a reel: to reel a fish in.
—Verb phrase
9. reel off, to say, write, or produce quickly and easily: The old sailor reeled off one story after another.
—Idiom
10. off the reel,
a. without pause; continuously.
b. without delay or hesitation; immediately.
Also, right off the reel.
Origin:
bef. 1050; (n.) ME rele, OE hrēol; c. ON hræll weaver's rod; (v.) ME relen, deriv. of rele

Related forms:
reel⋅a⋅ble, adjective
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Word Origin & History

reel  (v.)
"to whirl around," c.1300, probably from reel (n.1), on notion of "spinning." Of the mind, from 1796.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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