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spout (SPOUT) (verb)
1. To shoot out with force; such as, a liquid: "From a safe distance, we could see the volcano spout fire and lava."
2. To flow out with force: "The surgeon must be careful to make sure that the blood doesn't spout from the wound."
spout (SPOUT) (noun)
1. A tube, pipe, or hole out of which a liquid can flow: "This time the water will flow down the unplugged spout when it rains again."
2. A sudden strong stream of liquid: "A spout of water was seen coming from the old pipe in the basement."
3. As an informal British usage, up the spout is a description of something that has completely failed, been ruined, etc.: "England has been experiencing an economy that is up the spout."

"The marriage of the couple is going up the spout [or down the drain]."

A British family recently installed a new rain spout, and then after a thunderstorm, they could see the water spout out of the spout as it flooded their garden. They were sure that they were up the spout because their cellar was also being flooded.