WordNet
v. discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth [syn: expectorate, cough up, spit up, spit out]
Usage examples of "cough out".
He was striding back toward the carter, popping his whip, making it cough out those Daisy air rifle sounds.
Kharl managed to turn his head to the side and cough out some of the water that had been choking him.
Every one of them would cough out his own lungs eventually and nothing could be done to stop it.
You can go out and buy a machine like that and say turn out a story and press a button or flip a switch or maybe simply kick it and it'll cough out a story complete to the final exclamation point.
Speak true now, woodsrunner, or we shall deem you as twisted as a Beast One, fit only to cough out your life upon the point of a lance—.
Speak true now, woodsrunner, or we shall deem you as twisted as a Beast One, fit only to cough out your life upon the point of a lance-and that speedily!
Had it not been for that call and perhaps the fact that his attacker was overeager, the Terran might have gone down with a Norbie long-knife driven home between his shoulders, to cough out his life in the dusty roadway.