What is "coughs up"

Usage examples of "coughs up".

What's he think he's gonna do, thump the poor bastard's back until he coughs up his windpipe?

I am usually a planner and a plodder but this one emerged, if you'll pardon the analogy, like a cat coughs up a hairball.

Shaking, she coughs up some water she has swallowed, and her frozen body treads water without thought, grateful for the respite.

Either he comes up with the goods, you take it out of his hide, or his trunk is on the lot until he coughs up.

Dad says they'll probably never build it, unless Washington coughs up a lot of money, but with the Concorde retired people are thinking about it again, and Boeing likes to keep their engineers busy.

The policy pays fifty and you price the job at seventy and the old dear coughs up because she can't stand the thought of her Bill having a state funeral.

So I muster all the lads and we nips out extra early and drag it in the gates, as per expectations, and then we bides quiet, like, around it, waiting to see what it coughs up.

You will release the choke when Ralph coughs up the Harmony of the Spheres.

Taking refuge in a maintenance shaft, they find another computer terminal that coughs up more information.

There's an old Bobby Darin song which goes: 'And the ground coughs up some roots/wearing denim shirts and boots,/haul em away .