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cough (sth) up
[ M ] slang
to produce money or information unwillingly
• I've just had to cough up £40 for a parking fine., cough sth up
[ M ]
to make something come out of your throat or lungs when you cough
• Doctors were worried when she started to cough up blood.
Cambridge-Phrasal Verbs
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noun ADJ. little, polite, slight The butler gave a little cough to announce his presence. | violent | bad, nasty | chesty, croupy | barking, dry, hacking, racking, rasping | persistent | smoker's He had a smoker's cough and nicotine-yellowed fingers. VERB + COUGH give He gave a slight, apologetic cough and said, ‘Excuse me.’ | have, suffer from | catch, develop, get COUGH + NOUN medicine, mixture, sweetILLNESS, verb ADV. a bit, a little, slightly | apologetically, discreetly, nervously, politely | loudly, violently | up He vomited and began coughing up blood. PHRASES cough and splutter The whisky made her cough and splutter. | a coughing fit He had a coughing fit and couldn't speak for a few moments. | cough into life (figurative) The old engine coughed into life.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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cough
verbs
have (got) a cough
• I’ve had a cough for weeks now.
get/catch a cough
• A lot of people get coughs at this time of year.
adjectives
a bad cough
• Jason’s at home with a bad cough.
a nasty/violent cough
(= a very bad cough )
a smoker's cough
(= one caused by smoking )
a dry cough
(= one that does not produce any liquid )
a loose cough
(= one that produces liquid )
a chesty cough
British English (= one that affects your chest )
a hacking cough
(= a bad cough with an unpleasant sound )
a slight cough
(= one that is not very serious )
• He has a slight cough but I don’t think he’s really ill.
a tickly cough
(= one that keeps irritating your throat )
a persistent cough
(= one that is difficult to cure )
cough + NOUN
cough medicine/cough mixture/cough syrup
(= liquid containing medicine for a cough )
• You should take some cough medicine.
a cough drop
( also a cough sweet British English ) (= a sweet you suck to make a cough less irritating )
• He was sucking on a cough sweet.
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