Definition of cough up

cough up    

verb - transitive

• to pay.

  C'mon, can't you cough up fifty cents?

  • See more words with the same meaning: to buy, spend.

  Last edited on Mar 17 2011. Submitted by Dawn L. from Louisville, KY, USA on Jan 01 2004.

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Other terms relating to 'to buy, spend':
feed the meter	Definitions include: to put coins into a parking meter.
acqui-hire	Definitions include: the acquisition of one company by another, for the purpose of acquiring the employees more so than other aspects of the company's business.
piss (one's) money up the wall	Definitions include: to waste one's money.
blow	Definitions include: to be of poor quality, displeasing.
set (one) back	Definitions include: to cost.
pay through the nose	Definitions include: to pay too much money.
splurge	Definitions include: Verb. To ejaculate.
chip in	Definitions include: to contribute to a group cause.
pony up	Definitions include: to pay for.
spring for	Definitions include: to pay for; buy.

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Other terms relating to 'cough':
snough	Definitions include: to sneeze and cough at the same time.
trouser cough	Definitions include: a fart
Other terms relating to 'up':
6 up	Definitions include: a warning that one or more law enforcement officers are near.
ace up (one's) sleeve	Definitions include: a secret advantage.
act up	Definitions include: to misbehave.
AFU	Definitions include: acronym of "all fucked up."
all done up	Definitions include: well dressed, wearing makeup, etc.
all up in	Definitions include: doing something emphatically.
amped up	Definitions include: energetic due to consumption of a stimulant.
amp up	Definitions include: to increase.
ante up	Definitions include: to contribute one's share.
arse up	Definitions include: to mess up.
as f*cked up as a football bat	Definitions include: 1. To be highly intoxicated on drugs and/or alcohol
*ss up	Definitions include: to make something like ass.
ate up	Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird".
ate up with stupid	Definitions include: stupid.
ate up with the dumb *ss	Definitions include: strange / stupid.
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