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throwup en · NOUN

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Etymology

Deverbal from throw up.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Vomit.
   • It was all coming at her now: the fatigue and the fever; pieces of her lung splintering and mixing with her throwup; the calcifications on her bones, where the disease had already spread. 2012, Marcus Samuelsson, “One: My African Mother”, in Yes, Chef, Random House, →ISBN, page 6:
   • I had to change seats because I could still smell the throwup from the passenger who sat there yesterday.
2. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of throw-up (type of graffiti)
   alt of throw-up

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