throw up
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throw up
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The vomit sense is a clipping of throw up one's accounts (18th century), from earlier idiom cast up one's accounts (15th century).
verb throws up · throwing up · threw up · thrown up
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, up. Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
- To vomit. The baby threw up all over my shirt.
- To produce or reveal something new or unexpected. This system has thrown up a few problems.
- To cause something such as dust or water to rise into the air. The car wheels threw up a shower of stones.
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To erect, particularly hastily.
Every depression in the ground had been utilized; every rise taken advantage of, to dig rifle-pits or throw up a little earthwork, surrounded with sand-bags […]
Similar: run up, knock up, throw together, knock together, slap together
- To give up, abandon something. “No!” returned the spy. “I throw up. I confess that we were so unpopular with the outrageous mob, that I only got away from England at the risk of being ducked to death, and that Cly was so ferreted up and down, that he never would have got away at all but for that sham. Though how this man knows it
- To display a gang sign using the hands. Why don't you go on and throw up ya gang sign. Represent your hood, homey?
- To enlarge, as a picture reflected on a screen.
- To give special prominence to a line or lines.
noun throwup · throw-up
- Misspelling of throwup (“vomit”). We had to scrub the seats for throw up when we left the dog in the car.
interjection
- Used as an expression of frustration or to dismiss a conversation partner. "Oh, throw up," thought Rayne. "Don't say they've taken a fancy to each other."
Translations
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verb to produce something new or unexpected
| Español | lanzar |
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verb to cause something such as dust or water to rise into the air
| Español | levantar |
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verb to erect, particularly hastily
| Español | construir rápidamente y mal |
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verb to give up, abandon
| Español | dejar, abandonar, parar |
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| Русский | оста́вить ostávitʹ, бро́сить brósitʹ, отказа́ться otkazátʹsja |
verb to display a gang sign using the hands
| Español | echar barrio |
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title = {throw up},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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