throw up

1. 1.

   eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

   “After drinking too much, the students vomited”

   “He purged continuously”

   “The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night”

   Synonymsvomitvomit uppurgecastsickcatbe sickdisgorgeregorgeretchpukebarfspewspue

   Broaderexcrete

Questions about throw up

What does throw up mean?

throw up means "eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth".

What is another word for throw up?

Close synonyms include vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is throw up a common word?

throw up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.