throwup

See also: throw-up and throw up

English

Etymology

Deverbal from throw up.

Pronunciation

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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.
    • 2012, Marcus Samuelsson, “One: My African Mother”, in Yes, Chef, Random House, →ISBN, page 6:
      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.
  2. Alternative spelling of throw-up (type of graffiti)

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