Sekirov Dictionary

throw up

verb 8
exclamation 1
throw-up noun 1
forms 5

verb8

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To cause something such as dust or water to rise into the air.
- The car wheels threw up a shower of stones.
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(informal) To vomit.
- The baby threw up all over my shirt.
- That cat is always throwing up hairballs.
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To produce or reveal something new or unexpected.
- This system has thrown up a few problems.
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To give up, abandon something.
- In 1944, believing, as people in Leeds tended to do, that flying bombs or no flying bombs, things were better Down South, Dad threw up his job with the Co-op and we migrated to Guildford. — 2011
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To erect, particularly hastily.
- Every depression in the ground had been utilized; every rise taken advantage of, to dig rifle-pits or throw up a little earthwork, surrounded with sand-bags […] — 1872
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To display a gang sign using the hands.
- Why don't you go on and throw up ya gang sign. Represent your hood, homey? — 2005
(old-fashioned) To enlarge, as a picture reflected on a screen.
(no longer used) To give special prominence to a line or lines.

exclamation1

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Used as an expression of frustration or to dismiss a conversation partner.
- "Oh, throw up," thought Rayne. "Don't say they've taken a fancy to each other." — 2011

throw-up noun1

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(slang) Synonym of throwie (“kind of simple graffiti”).
- There is a hierarchy of sorts: a throw-up can go over a tag, a piece over a throw-up, and a burner over a piece. — 2011

forms

threw up · thrown up · throwing up · throws up · throw-ups

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