Noun coughing up has 1 sense
- coughing up - the act of expelling (food or phlegm) by coughing
--1 is a kind of expulsion, projection, ejection, forcing out
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Verb cough up has 2 senses
- cough up, pony up, spit up - give reluctantly; "He coughed up some money for his children's tuition"
--1 is one way to give
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- expectorate, cough up, cough out, spit up, spit out - discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth
--2 is one way to discharge, expel, eject, release
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
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