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Definition: TO THROW UP |
TO THROW UP1. (a) To resign; to give up; to demit; as, to throw up a commission. ``Experienced gamesters throw up their cards when they know that the game is in the enemy's hand.'' --Addison. (b) To reject from the stomach; to vomit. (c) To construct hastily; as, to throw up a breastwork of earth. |
| Domain | Definition |
Multilingual Slang | Hungarian (kitaccsolni, ro'ka'zni), Swiss German (ä pizza leggä, chörblä, chiisä ). (references) |
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Crosswords: TO THROW UP |
| English words defined with "TO THROW UP": Embank ♦ keep down ♦ To cast up, To gulp up, To throw up the sponge. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TO THROW UP": Vomica. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Fear makes me want to throw up. (Halloween: Resurrection; writing credit: Debra Hill; John Carpenter) Yeah, I have to throw up first. (Scrubs; writing credit: Gabrielle Allan; Janae Bakken) Olaf Tryggvason used to throw up on every single voyage the whole time non-stop puke puke puke. (Erik the Viking; writing credit: Terry Jones) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Author | Quotation |
Pat Boone | There's something about me that makes a lot of people want to throw up. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
Expressions using "TO THROW UP": To throw up another's heels ♦ To throw up the sponge. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "TO THROW UP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | in die Höhe werfen. (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | lemond (abandon, abdicate, back down, demit, denounce, disclaim, forgo, give up, renounce, resign, to abdicate, to call off, to disclaim, to discontinue, to eschew, to renounce, to resign, to surrender, to waive). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 投'上'る . (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | な'あ'る. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | otay owthray upay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-o-o-p-r-t-t-u-w" | |
-1 letter: outthrow. | |
-2 letters: outport, prutoth, upthrow. | |
-3 letters: outrow, prutot, toroth, trowth, uproot. | |
-4 letters: ortho, photo, potto, putto, routh, rowth, thoro, thorp, throw, tooth, torot, troop, troth, trout, truth, tutor, whoop, whort, worth, wroth. | |
-5 letters: hoop, hoot, hour, hurt, otto, ouph, phot, phut, pooh, poor, port, pour, pout, prow, putt, root, roto, roup, rout, ruth, thou, thro. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F 54 48 52 4F 57 55 50 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01010100 01001000 01010010 01001111 01010111 00100000 01010101 01010000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   T H R O W   U P |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F 0054 0048 0052 004F 0057 0055 0050 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54492544252495725550 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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