Crossword clues for cough up
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 contest 4 (context transitive idiomatic English) To spill, to fumble
WordNet
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.