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cough over

cough over verb: to give money or other valuables, usually reluctantly.

Verb

cough over (third-person singular simple present coughs over, present participle coughing over, simple past and past participle coughed over)

  1. (slang, transitive) To give money or other valuables, usually reluctantly.
    • Eventually, he'll cough over the money he owes.

Forms of cough over

third-person singular presentcoughs over
present participlecoughing over
past participlecoughed over
pastcoughed over

Questions about cough over

What does cough over mean?
Cough over means to give money or other valuables, usually reluctantly.
What part of speech is cough over?
Cough over is a verb.
What is the past tense of cough over?
The past tense of cough over is coughed over.

Words near cough over in the dictionary

  1. cough lolly
  2. cough medicine
  3. cough mixture
  4. cough mixtures
  5. cough out
  6. cough over
  7. cough sweet
  8. cough sweets
  9. cough syrup
  10. cough syrups
  11. cough up

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