"cough up" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: coughs up [present, singular, third-person], coughing up [participle, present], coughed up [participle, past], coughed up [past]
Etymology: From cough + up. Etymology templates: {{m|en|cough}} cough, {{m|en|up}} up Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} cough up (third-person singular simple present coughs up, present participle coughing up, simple past and past participle coughed up)
  1. To expel from the lungs, throat, etc. by coughing. Related terms: expectorate Translations (to expel by coughing): yskiä (Finnish), cracher (French), aushusten (German), odkasływać [imperfective] (Polish), odkasłać [perfective] (Polish), отка́шливать (otkášlivatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), expectorar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-cough_up-en-verb-i1UOyPPq Disambiguation of 'to expel by coughing': 76 4 11 4 5
  2. (idiomatic, transitive, informal) To reluctantly or unwillingly give.
    (of money) To pay or disburse reluctantly (perhaps influenced by coffers of money).
    Tags: idiomatic, informal, transitive Synonyms: shell out, fork out, fork over Translations (to pay money): vyklopit (Czech), vysolit (Czech), navalit (Czech), pulittaa (Finnish), cracher (French), lâcher (French), herausrücken (German), blechen (German), kicsenget (Hungarian), kipenget (Hungarian), kiperkál (Hungarian), выкла́дывать (vykládyvatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), вы́ложить (alt: де́ньги) [perfective] (Russian), раскоше́ливаться (raskošélivatʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), раскоше́литься (raskošélitʹsja) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-cough_up-en-verb-abF8R7Fe Disambiguation of 'to pay money': 0 100 0 0 0
  3. (idiomatic, transitive, informal) To reluctantly or unwillingly give.
    (of other objects) To hand over, give.
    Tags: idiomatic, informal, transitive
    Sense id: en-cough_up-en-verb-9G1U18CL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 18 38 23 6 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 15 21 36 21 8
  4. (idiomatic) To lose a competition by one's own mistakes, usually near the end of the contest. Tags: idiomatic Translations (to lose by one's own mistakes): hassata (Finnish), tyriä (Finnish), se planter (French)
    Sense id: en-cough_up-en-verb-Tz5z1Ebc Disambiguation of "to lose by one's own mistakes": 2 2 6 87 3
  5. (transitive, idiomatic) To spill, to fumble. Tags: idiomatic, transitive Translations (to spill, fumble): hassata (Finnish), tyriä (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-cough_up-en-verb-Mfq31scq Disambiguation of 'to spill, fumble': 3 3 6 5 83

Inflected forms

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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to pay money",
      "word": "pulittaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to pay money",
      "word": "cracher"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to pay money",
      "word": "lâcher"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to pay money",
      "word": "herausrücken"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to pay money",
      "word": "blechen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to pay money",
      "word": "kicsenget"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to pay money",
      "word": "kipenget"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to pay money",
      "word": "kiperkál"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vykládyvatʹ",
      "sense": "to pay money",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "выкла́дывать"
    },
    {
      "alt": "де́ньги",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "sense": "to pay money",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "вы́ложить"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "raskošélivatʹsja",
      "sense": "to pay money",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "раскоше́ливаться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "raskošélitʹsja",
      "sense": "to pay money",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "раскоше́литься"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to lose by one's own mistakes",
      "word": "hassata"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to lose by one's own mistakes",
      "word": "tyriä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to lose by one's own mistakes",
      "word": "se planter"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to spill, fumble",
      "word": "hassata"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to spill, fumble",
      "word": "tyriä"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cough up"
}
{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/2028",
  "msg": "more than one value in \"alt\": výložitʹ (dénʹgi) vs. де́ньги",
  "path": [
    "cough up"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "cough up",
  "trace": ""
}

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