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cough
verb- to confess US, 1899
- They told me that the others have coughed it. That is their pigeon. — Bournemouth Evening Echo, 20 April 1966
- He coughed for them. What more do you want? — David Peace, Nineteen Seventy-Four, p. 167, 1999
- in drag racing, to suffer complete engine failure US
Used as a transitive verb; “you cough your engine.” - — Ross Olney, Kins of the Drag Strip, p. 186, 1968
▶ cough your cud
to vomit NEW ZEALAND- The poor townie turned green and as we say in the country, coughed his cud. — Bill Richards, A Pioneer’s Life, p. 91, 1989
- — Harry Orsman, A Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang, p. 32, 1999
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