throw up

Meaning

Verb

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, up.
2. (informal, intransitive, transitive) To vomit.
3. (transitive) To produce or reveal something new or unexpected.
4. (transitive) To cause something such as dust or water to rise into the air.
5. (dated, transitive) To erect, particularly hastily.
6. (ambitransitive) To give up, abandon something.
7. (transitive) To display a gang sign using the hands.
8. (dated, transitive) To enlarge, as a picture reflected on a screen.
9. (obsolete, transitive) To give special prominence to a line or lines.

Noun

Misspelling of throwup (“vomit”).

Intj

Used as an expression of frustration or to dismiss a conversation partner.

Synonyms

vomit

puke

spew

barf

regurgitate

cast up

fling up

retch

bring up

disgorge

sick

🤢

spue

upchuck

toss up

be sick

chuck up

cast

vomit up

chuck

regorge

cat

😺

spit up

toss

toss one’s cookies

hurl

honk

give up

throw away

sick up

scatter

spit

purge

kick

ralph

sling up

discard

disavow

disallow

cant

decline

darn

call down

dam up

inveigh

come up

bullyrag

berate

jump

jump on

bawl out

Translations

vomir

vomitare

vomitar

vomitar

sich übergeben

braken

erbrechen

kotzen

vomitar

kotsen

sich erbrechen

overgeven

spugen

vomeren

speien

Etymology

The vomit sense is a clipping of throw up one's accounts (18th century), from earlier idiom cast up one's accounts (15th century).