单词 | throw-up |
释义 | throw-upn. 1. An act or instance of throwing something upwards, or of being thrown upwards. Also: that which is thrown or tossed upwards. ΚΠ 1775 W. Perry Royal Standard Eng. Dict. 384/1 Toss,..an affected throw up of the head. 1832 Examiner 508/1 He answered with a bold front and an important throw up of his head. 1882 Proc. Royal Soc. 1881–2 33 464 Great steadiness, absence of appreciable friction, and elimination of the effect of the ‘throw up’ sustained by a lever weighted anywhere except at its axis, were ensured by this adjustment. 1908 A. W. Myers Compl. Lawn Tennis Player vii. 100 The throw-up of the ball is as important a matter as anything in the service. 1983 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 87 110/1 Such wares must be recognized as possible contemporary products and not disregarded as throw-ups from earlier strata. 2017 Glasgow Herald (Nexis) 12 June 9 A minute's applause..had taken place ahead of the throw up of the ball which started proceedings. 2. Vomit; matter thrown up from the stomach. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > vomiting > vomit spewingc1380 vomea1382 vomitc1390 voment1482 parbreak1590 vomiture1598 spew1609 puke1705 vomiting1716 vomitus1904 throw-up1918 sick1959 1918 E. M. Calhoun Diary 21 June in WW1 Diary (1999) 25 The latrines are full of sea sick ones too; Can't step without stepping in throw-up. 1973 Mt. Pleasant (Iowa) News 9 June 13/2 Dave..peered through the dirty oven door window and asked, clearly dismayed, ‘What's that stuff?’.. ‘Yuk,’ says my oldest. ‘Looks..like throw-up if you ask me.’ 2012 A. M. Martin Ten Good & Bad Things about my Life vi. 68 A kid in the back barfed, and..I thought..she might have helped the kid, but Lexie is not fond of throw-up, her own or anyone else's. 3. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). A piece of graffiti executed quickly, typically consisting of bubble lettering spray-painted in one colour and outlined in another. ΚΠ 1980 N.Y. Times 19 Oct. 50/3 Some pieces are ‘throw-ups’ that can be completed in a few minutes; NE wants to do a much more elaborate version tonight. 1982 C. Castleman Getting Up: Subway Graffiti in N.Y. 29 Throw-ups are usually done in a modified bubble letter style consisting of thick, simplified letters, incompletely painted in one color, and outlined inexactly with a second, darker color. 1994 Denver Post 2 Jan. (Mag.) 10/1 The boxcar stirred from its rest and rolled down the tracks just as the young men finished their throwups. 2009 Daily Tel. 24 June 29/1 Line by line, Iz took over the city's subway system, sometimes executing 100 ‘throw-ups’ (one-colour outlines with one-colour fill-ins) in a single night. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1775 |
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