Wiktionary
n. (context colloquial English) Vomit. vb. 1 (&lit throw up English) 2 (context now colloquial English) To vomit. 3 To produce something new or unexpected. 4 To cause something such as dust or water to rise into the air. 5 To erect, particularly hastily. 6 To give up, abandon (something). 7 To display a gang sign using the hands
WordNet
v. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate] [ant: keep down]
Usage examples of "throw up".
I told myself I wasn't going to throw up, and took a bunch of deep breaths.
There was a queasy feeling in the pit of my stomach and it rumbled, but I didn't get sick enough to throw up.
It appears to be a line of defence for musketry, such as our armies used to throw up: whether the French, who conducted siege operations from this promontory on Capri, under Murat, had anything to do with it, does not appear.
None of the onlookers will bother me with curses or with his own clumsy response to the Games, no one in an excess of identification will throw up on my lap.
For, if all should imitate you, nobody will dig a trench, or throw up a rampart, or watch, or expose himself to danger.
Immediately he would throw up his work and take up the war as a family blood feud against the Germans.
Unless you throw up at once, you'll sweat, vomit blood, pee blood, and collapse.
For sheep do not throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten.
As he stared at the blood covering his right hand, he felt as if he were going to throw up.
It must be necessary from time to time for the Order to throw up somebody like Rosa with an overview, somebody capable of perceiving greater scales, more complex threats.