Wiktionary
coughing up
vb. (present participle of cough up English)
WordNet
coughing up
n. the act of expelling (food or phlegm) by coughing
Usage examples of "coughing up".
The kick had in fact landed him in the midst of some flowering bushes where, after coughing up several mouthfuls of blood and spending some time trying to collect himself, he had finally got back on his feet.
A few feet away, a dark-haired man lay contorted and dying, coughing up blood as other people tried to comfort him.
His lips and tongue were covered with a brown slime, and he was coughing up a watery spittle that was streaked with blood.
When her FN-17 ran out, she would die here among the Echraidhe, coughing up her lungs like her mother.
Men were crawling from the river, men burned and bleeding, coughing up water, staggering, most dying.