单词 | cough up |
释义 | cough up (once / 15291 pages) v WORD FAMILY cough up: coughed up, coughing up, coughs up USAGE EXAMPLESIn exchange for rights to his story, a Hollywood movie studio coughed up more than $1 million in restitution for Harris-Moore. Seattle Times(Dec 20, 2016) But the chainsaws are usually only let loose on smaller trees, so taxpayers must cough up. Economist(Dec 15, 2016) First books are published through contests, and subsidized in part by the entry fee coughed up by the poet. Slate(Dec 06, 2016) 1v discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth Syn|Hypo|Hyper cough out, expectorate, spit out, spit up cough exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion ptyalise, ptyalize, spew, spit, spueexpel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth spit out, splutter, sputterspit up in an explosive manner hack, whoopcough spasmodically clear the throat, hawkclear mucus or food from one's throat discharge, eject, exhaust, expel, release eliminate (a substance) 2v give reluctantly He coughed up some money for his children's tuition Syn|Hyper pony up, spit up give transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody |
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