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throwup

throwup noun: vomit. Also the alternative form of throw-up.

Noun

throwup (countable and uncountable, plural throwups)

  1. Vomit.
    • I had to change seats because I could still smell the throwup from the passenger who sat there yesterday.
    • It was all coming at her now: the fatigue and the fever; pieces of her lung splintering and mixing with her throwup; the calcifications on her bones, where the disease had already spread.2012, Marcus Samuelsson, “One: My African Mother”, in Yes, Chef, Random House, →ISBN, page 6

Also used as

throwup is also the alternative form of throw-up.

Forms of throwup

pluralthrowups

Origin of throwup

Deverbal from throw up.

Questions about throwup

What does throwup mean?
Throwup means vomit.
What part of speech is throwup?
Throwup is a noun.
What is the plural of throwup?
The plural of throwup is throwups.

Words near throwup in the dictionary

  1. throws wobblies
  2. throwster
  3. throwsters
  4. throwstick
  5. throwsticks
  6. throwup
  7. throwups
  8. THRs
  9. thru
  10. thru-hike
  11. thru-hiked

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