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throw up en · INTJ

Pronunciation

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).

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:dismissal) Used as an expression of frustration or to dismiss a conversation partner.
    • Oh, throw up. Really? Since when does Hannah need to be rescued by anyone for anything? 2018, Hillary Homzie, Apple Pie Promises, Sky Pony Press:
    • Oh throw up... Biden & Harris are both losers. 2020 December 10, @SherK50662136, X:
    • Oh throw up. Pringle is better than Hardman. Chiefs done for a long ass time 2022 March 22, @Bandwagonfan9, X:
    • "Oh, throw up," thought Rayne. "Don't say they've taken a fancy to each other." 2011, Kate Cann, Consumed:

Relateds

throw down

throw up en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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).

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, colloquial, misspelling, uncountable) Misspelling of throwup (“vomit”).
    alt of throwup
    • We had to scrub the seats for throw up when we left the dog in the car.

Forms

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throw-up alternative lexicographic
throwup alternative lexicographic

throw up en · VERB

Pronunciation

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).

Meanings

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, up.
    • The servant (who) had first entered had thrown up the window […] 1910, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Devil's Foot:
    • Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash. 1823, Clement Clarke Moore, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas:
  2. (ambitransitive, informal) To vomit.
    • That cat is always throwing up hairballs.
    • I wonder what happens if you throw up in zero gravity. 1988 September 19, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
    • The baby threw up all over my shirt.
  3. (transitive) To produce or reveal something new or unexpected.
    • This system has thrown up a few problems.
  4. (transitive) To cause something such as dust or water to rise into the air.
    • The car wheels threw up a shower of stones.
  5. (dated, transitive) To erect, particularly hastily.
    • The deal was that if anyone started catching feelings, he could throw up a stop sign and the other would honor it. 2007, Marissa Monteilh, Dr. Feelgood, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 27:
    • 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 […] 1872, Every Saturday, page 96:
    • In other words, a business can throw up a huge detour sign in the way of the government. 2001, Diane Kennedy, Loop-Holes of the Rich: How the Rich Legally Make More Money & Pay Less Tax, Warner Books,, →ISBN, page 70:
  6. (ambitransitive) To give up, abandon something.
    • 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. 2011, Alan Bennett, “Baffled at a Bookcase”, in London Review of Books, XXXIII.15:
    • “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.” 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:
  7. (transitive) To display a gang sign using the hands.
    • Why don't you go on and throw up ya gang sign. Represent your hood, homey? 2005, Brandon Bennett, Moon in Gemini, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 56:
  8. (dated, transitive) To enlarge, as a picture reflected on a screen.
  9. (obsolete, transitive) To give special prominence to a line or lines.

Forms

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thrown up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
throws up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
throwing up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
threw up Tense=Past lexicographic

Coordinates

whip up

Deriveds

throw up a brick · throw up the sponge

Synonyms

knock together · run up · chuck up (vomit) · hurl (vomit) · knock up (erect hastily) · knock up · vomit (vomit) · upchuck (vomit) · throw together · slap together

Translations (16)

es parar (to give up, abandon) · fa راست بودن (to erect, particularly hastily) · fa راست ایستادن (to erect, particularly hastily) · ru оста́вить (to give up, abandon) · es levantar (to cause something such as dust or water to rise into the air) · ru отказа́ться (to give up, abandon) · es construir rápidamente y mal (to erect, particularly hastily) · es echar barrio (to display a gang sign using the hands) · ga caith uait (to give up, abandon) · es dejar (to give up, abandon) · ga caith suas (to erect, particularly hastily) · fa شق بودن (to erect, particularly hastily) · es abandonar (to give up, abandon) · ga cuir in airde (to cause something such as dust or water to rise into the air) · es lanzar (to produce something new or unexpected) · ru бро́сить (to give up, abandon)