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Definition: Spit Up |
Spit UpVerb1. 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: Spit UpSynonyms: cough out (v), cough up (v), expectorate (v), pony up (v), spit out (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Spit Up |
| English words defined with "spit up": spit out, splutter, sputter. (references) |
| Play | Caption |
 | Vomit; regurgitate; regurgitating; barf; be seasick; be sick; belch; bring up; disgorge; dry heave; emit; expel; gag; heave; hurl; keck; lose it; puke; regurgitate; retch; ruminate; spew; spit up; throw up; upchuck. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
baby spit up | 13 |
spit up | 5 |
infant spit up | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "spit up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Spanish | soltar un esputo. (various references) | |
Turkmen | kьl-uюak. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-p-p-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: situp. | |
-2 letters: pips, pits, pups, puts, spit, suit, tips, tuis, tups. | |
-3 letters: its, pip, pis, pit, piu, psi, pup, pus, put, sip, sit, sup, tip, tis, tui, tup, ups, uts. | |
-4 letters: is, it, pi, si, ti, up, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-p-p-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: pulpits. | |
+2 letters: cuppiest, populist, pulpiest. | |
+3 letters: peripatus, populists, pupations, suppliant. | |
+4 letters: impromptus, paupiettes, populistic, potpourris, pourpoints, propitious, propositus, puppetries, septupling, suppertime, suppletion, suppletive, suppliants, supplicant, supplicate, supporting, supportive, supraoptic, unhappiest, unstepping, unstopping, uppitiness, uppityness, upstepping. | |
+5 letters: opportunism, opportunist, outstripped, peripatuses, perspicuity, pittosporum, populations, postnuptial, precipitous, presumption, presumptive, superpolite, superprofit, superscript, suppertimes, supplanting, suppletions, suppliantly, supplicants, supplicated, supplicates, supposition, suppository, suppurating, suppuration, suppurative, unstrapping. | |
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