Antonyms for cough up

Grammar : Verb

Spell : kawf, kof

Phonetic Transcription : kɔf, kɒf

Definition of cough up

Origin : early 14c., coughen, probably in Old English, but not recorded, from Proto-Germanic *kokh- (with the rough "kh" of German or of Scottish loch; cf. Middle Dutch kochen, Middle High German kuchen). Onomatopoeic. Related: Coughed; coughing. As a noun from c.1300.

As in pay : verb give money for goods, services
As in puke : verb vomit
As in recompense : verb pay back, make restitution
As in spend : verb give, pay out
As in disburse : verb spend money
As in divulge : verb make known; confess

Example sentences :

We get together most every night in his room, and I has to cough up what I've got next to durin' the day.
Extract from : « Torchy » by Sewell Ford

He stopped his rush and began to cough up blood from a pierced lung.
Extract from : « B. C. 30,000 » by Sterner St. Paul Meek

Nothing but Yanks or Tommies could cough up a roar like that, believe me.
Extract from : « To Kiel in the 'Hercules' » by Lewis R. Freeman

Shipley will have to cough up the stolen money, too, because then the conspiracy will be proven.
Extract from : « Bulldog Carney » by W. A. Fraser

Live ones, I mean, that cough up their little dues every month.
Extract from : « Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford » by George Randolph Chester

But he had to cough up more water before he could tell them.
Extract from : « Caves of Terror » by Talbot Mundy

Did he not know at the time that his man Cortelyou was holding up the trusts for all they would "cough up" for his election?
Extract from : « Labor and Freedom » by Eugene V. Debs

Weak in the chest he was, and when we were driving her lively he used to cough up blood.
Extract from : « A Damaged Reputation » by Harold Bindloss

But before we cough up the ghost it behooves us to strike one last blow at the hated paleface.
Extract from : « Frank Merriwell at Yale » by Burt L. Standish

Tom says he will cough up and buy the things Jack needs to start, if the little money Jack's father left him ain't enough.
Extract from : « Living Up to Billy » by Elizabeth Cooper

Synonyms for cough up

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