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The gap between how much you poured and how much made it into the glass.
means The amount of something, especially liquid, that escapes or is lost by spilling.
from Built from the verb 'spill' plus the noun-forming suffix '-age' (the same ending that turns 'break' into 'breakage' or 'leak' into 'leakage'). 'Spill' itself traces back to Old English 'spillan,' meaning to destroy or kill — its sense softened over centuries from 'waste a life' to 'waste blood' to, eventually, the far gentler 'waste a drop of milk.' The '-age' was tacked on later to name the mess as a quantity, turning an act into a measurable aftermath.
- legal term
- insurers use it to dodge paying full claims
- bar slang
- bartenders blame it for short pours
- industrial use
- oil spillage cleanup can cost billions