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n. The act or an instance of spilling over.

n. An amount or quantity spilled over.

n. A side effect arising from or as if from an unpredicted source: Late trains were a spillover of increased ridership.

n. That which overflows; the excess or side effect.

n. The spread of infectious disease between different species of animal and particularly to humans.

n. (economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure

"While the imagery and description of the crimes are always very vivid, the real sense of risk to El Pasoans can seem murky, particularly when reading over the debate of the term spillover, which is considered either an imminent threat to the American public or a reality that has been faced by the United States portion of the illegal drug industry for years."

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