cough up

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verb

1. give reluctantly
- He coughed up some money for his children's tuition
• Syn:
pony up, spit up
• Hypernyms:
give
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth
• Syn:
expectorate, cough out, spit up, spit out
• Derivationally related forms:
expectoration (for: expectorate), expectorator (for: expectorate)
• Hypernyms:
exhaust, discharge, expel, eject, release
• Hyponyms:
cough, spit, ptyalize, ptyalise, spew,
spue, splutter, sputter, spit out
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s