Cough Up

Definition: Cough Up

Cough Up

Verb

1. Give reluctantly; "He coughed up some money for his children's tuition".

2. Discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Cough Up

Payment

Pay one's way, pay one's shot, pay one's footing; pay the piper, pay sauce for all, pay costs; do the needful; shell out, fork out; cough up, fork over; come down with, come down with the dust; tickle the palm, grease the palm; expend; put down, lay down.

Crosswords: Cough Up

Oy, I think I'm gonna cough up a furball. (Stuart Little; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

Cough up a buck you cheap bastard. (Reservoir Dogs; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Often, the first indication that patients have the autoantibody is when they cough up blood. (references)

Goodpasture syndrome can cause people to cough up blood or feel a burning sensation when urinating. (references)

You should see your doctor on a regular basis and especially if you have a chest cold or any time you cough up mucus. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

nxjerr me kollë. (various references)

Bulgarian 

плащам (come across, compensate, defray, give, kick in, meet, part, pay, plank down, remunerate, set up, settle up, shell out, stand sam). (various references)

Czech

vykašlat (cough out). (various references)

French

cracher, casquer, raquer. (various references)

German

löhnen (pay up, shell out), blechen (fork out, pay up), auswerfen (allocate, cast, dig out, disgorge, eject, pay out, produce, put out, shovel out, smash, spit, throw out, to disgorge), ausspucken (cough out, disgorge, expectorate, pour out, regurgitate, spew out, spit, spit out, to disgorge, to spit out), aushusten (cough out, hawk up). (various references)

Greek 

φτύνω (expectorate, spit). (various references)

Hungarian

felköhög (to hawk up). (various references)

Indonesian

membatukkan. (various references)

Pig Latin

oughcay upay

Portuguese

expectorar (expectorate, spit), escarrar (expectorate, gob, spit). (various references)

Romanian

spune ceva tuşind, spune în silã. (various references)

Russian 

отхаркивать (cough out, expectorate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

iskašljati (cough out, expectorate). (various references)

Spanish

expectorar (expectorate), escupir (bleed, gob, spit, spit out). (various references)

Swedish

punga ut med (plank out, shell out, stump up), klämma fram med, hosta upp (expectorate). (various references)

Turkish

zorla söylemek, zoraki anlatmak, sökülmek (come away, come unstitched, Ravel, ravel out, rip, slit, unravel), para vermek (ante, cross smb.'s hand, give money, pay, plonk down, pony up), öksürerek çıkarmak (cough out, expectorate). (various references)

Turkmen 

ardynjyramak. (various references)

Ukrainian

вибовкувати (rabble). (various references)

Misspellings

"Cough Up" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cought up. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: cough, pouch.

-3 letters: chop, chug, coup, ouch, ouph, pugh.

-4 letters: cog, cop, cup, hog, hop, hug, hup, poh, pug, ugh, upo.

-5 letters: go, ho, oh, op, uh, up.

+4 letters: outpunching.