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Verb [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-cough up.wav Forms: coughs up [present, singular, third-person], coughing up [participle, present], coughed up [participle, past], coughed up [past]
Etymology: From cough + 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, stomach, etc. by coughing. 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-AIPALD20 Disambiguation of 'to expel by coughing': 70 4 10 6 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), بایلمق (bayılmak) (Ottoman Turkish), arrotar (Portuguese), 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 0
  3. (idiomatic, transitive, informal) To reluctantly or unwillingly give.
    (of other objects) To hand over, give.
    Tags: idiomatic, informal, transitive
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  4. (idiomatic, transitive, informal) To reluctantly or unwillingly give.
    (intransitive, slang) To confess; to give up information.
    Tags: idiomatic, informal, intransitive, slang, transitive Related terms: expectorate
    Sense id: en-cough_up-en-verb-nq3pIcoH
  5. (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 5 12 77 2
  6. (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': 2 3 5 8 4 78

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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        "(idiomatic) To lose a competition by one's own mistakes, usually near the end of the contest."
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          "ref": "2006, K. M. Soehnlein, You Can Say You Knew Me When, page 240:",
          "text": "\"[…] Usually businessmen. Married, middle-aged guys who'll cough up fifty bucks to smoke my pole.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To reluctantly or unwillingly give.",
        "To pay or disburse reluctantly (perhaps influenced by coffers of money)."
      ],
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        [
          "reluctant",
          "reluctant"
        ],
        [
          "unwilling",
          "unwilling"
        ],
        [
          "give",
          "give"
        ],
        [
          "pay",
          "pay"
        ],
        [
          "disburse",
          "disburse"
        ],
        [
          "coffer",
          "coffer#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive, informal) To reluctantly or unwillingly give.",
        "(of money) To pay or disburse reluctantly (perhaps influenced by coffers of money)."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of money"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "shell out"
        },
        {
          "word": "fork out"
        },
        {
          "word": "fork over"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:",
          "text": "\"Anyhow, you go and cough it up and then we shall see.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, The Big Bang Theory, season 6, episode 14",
          "text": "Cough it up, Cooper."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To reluctantly or unwillingly give.",
        "To hand over, give."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "reluctant",
          "reluctant"
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        [
          "unwilling",
          "unwilling"
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          "give",
          "give"
        ],
        [
          "hand over",
          "hand over"
        ]
      ],
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        "(idiomatic, transitive, informal) To reluctantly or unwillingly give.",
        "(of other objects) To hand over, give."
      ],
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        "of other objects"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
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        "English idioms",
        "English informal terms",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English slang",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To reluctantly or unwillingly give.",
        "To confess; to give up information."
      ],
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        [
          "reluctant",
          "reluctant"
        ],
        [
          "unwilling",
          "unwilling"
        ],
        [
          "give",
          "give"
        ],
        [
          "confess",
          "confess"
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          "give up",
          "give up"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive, informal) To reluctantly or unwillingly give.",
        "(intransitive, slang) To confess; to give up information."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal",
        "intransitive",
        "slang",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
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        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "That team had the game won, but they coughed it up in the end.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To lose a competition by one's own mistakes, usually near the end of the contest."
      ],
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          "competition"
        ],
        [
          "mistakes",
          "mistakes"
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        [
          "contest",
          "contest"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To lose a competition by one's own mistakes, usually near the end of the contest."
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        "idiomatic"
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        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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          "ref": "2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France:",
          "text": "England had never before come back to win from a margin of more than 12 points, and the errors continued to come thick and fast as Tom Croft became the latest to cough up the ball.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To spill, to fumble."
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          "fumble",
          "fumble"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To spill, to fumble."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to expel by coughing",
      "word": "yskiä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to expel by coughing",
      "word": "cracher"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to expel by coughing",
      "word": "aushusten"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to expel by coughing",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "odkasływać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to expel by coughing",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "odkasłać"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otkášlivatʹ",
      "sense": "to expel by coughing",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "отка́шливать"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to expel by coughing",
      "word": "expectorar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to pay money",
      "word": "vyklopit"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to pay money",
      "word": "vysolit"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to pay money",
      "word": "navalit"
    },
    {
      "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": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "bayılmak",
      "sense": "to pay money",
      "word": "بایلمق"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to pay money",
      "word": "arrotar"
    },
    {
      "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"
}

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