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throw
noun- the cost of an item or action, usually preceded by a specific amount US, 1898
Probably from the old side shows of the fair. - White orchids go with anything, but they cost $15 a throw. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 214, 1948
- Y’innarested? Five bucks a throw. Fifteen bucks the whole night. — J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye, p. 91, 1951
- Beer was two-bits a throw. — Mickey Spillane, The Long Wait, p. 47, 1951
- The male prostitute can count on being paid an average of $10 a throw, which is considerably less than the average female earns. — Screw, p. 3, 7 February 1969
- an act of vomiting; vomit AUSTRALIA
- Calling for Herb, see, that’s one of the many euphemisms for vomit, others include spue, burp, hurl, the big spit, the long spit, throw, the whip o’will, the technicolour laugh and, in Queensland, the chuckle. — Frank Hardy, Billy Borker Rides Again, 1967
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