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Vinony

throw up

verb

  1. to vomit
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intj

Etymology: The vomit sense is a clipping of throw up one's accounts (18th century), from earlier idiom cast up one's accounts (15th century).

  1. 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."”

    “Oh, throw up. Really? Since when does Hannah need to be rescued by anyone for anything?”

noun

Etymology: The vomit sense is a clipping of throw up one's accounts (18th century), from earlier idiom cast up one's accounts (15th century).

  1. Misspelling of throwup (“vomit”).

    “We had to scrub the seats for throw up when we left the dog in the car.”

verb

Etymology: The vomit sense is a clipping of throw up one's accounts (18th century), from earlier idiom cast up one's accounts (15th century).

  1. 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.”

    “The servant (who) had first entered had thrown up the window […]”

  2. To vomit.

    “The baby threw up all over my shirt.”

    “That cat is always throwing up hairballs.”

  3. To produce or reveal something new or unexpected.

    “This system has thrown up a few problems.”

  4. To cause something such as dust or water to rise into the air.

    “The car wheels threw up a shower of stones.”

  5. 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 […]”

    “In other words, a business can throw up a huge detour sign in the way of the government.”

  6. 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 was a sham, is a wonder of wonders to me.””

    “In 1944, believing, as people in Leeds tended to do, that flying bombs or no flying bombs, things were better Down South, Dad threw up his job with the Co-op and we migrated to Guildford.”

  7. To display a gang sign using the hands.

    “Why don't you go on and throw up ya gang sign. Represent your hood, homey?”

  8. To enlarge, as a picture reflected on a screen.
  9. To give special prominence to a line or lines.