throw up


verb(adverb, mainly tr)
  1. to give up; abandon, relinquish

  2. to build or construct hastily

  1. to reveal; produce: every generation throws up its own leaders

  2. (also intr) informal to vomit

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throw up

Vomit, as in The new drug makes many patients throw up. [First half of 1700s]

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