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Pay that is horrible — there's mutinous activity about that
Answer for the clue "Pay that is horrible — there's mutinous activity about that ", 8 letters:
cough up
Word definitions for cough up in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 to expel from the lungs, throat, etc. by coughing 2 (context idiomatic English) to pay money, to disburse, usually reluctantly or with difficulty. 3 (context idiomatic English) to lose a competition by one's own mistakes, usually near the end of the ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
v. give reluctantly; "He coughed up some money for his children's tuition" [syn: pony up , spit up ] discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth [syn: expectorate , cough out , spit up , spit out ]
Usage examples of cough up.
On account of this one king, eighteen hundred houses were destroyed, and when poor Leszczynski fled to France because that's where his son-in-law Louis was living, the people of Danzig had to cough up a round million.
She couldn't remember ever having seen a baby cough up so much snot all at once.
He didn't reach them before he bent to one knee and retched, although he hadn't much in his stomach to cough up.
Of course we sue the EPA every year, and they may cough up three, four million.