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单词 hiccuped
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
hic•cup or hic•cough /ˈhɪkʌp, -əp/USA pronunciation   n., v., hic•cuped or hic•cupped or hic•coughed /ˈhɪkʌpt, -əpt/,USA pronunciation  -cup•ing or -cup•ping or -cough•ing. 
n. [countable]
  1. Pathologya sharp gulping sound in the throat caused by the rapid intake of air following a spasm of the muscle that causes breathing.
  2. PathologyUsually, hiccups. [plural] an attack of hiccups:I have the hiccups.

v. [no object]
  1. Pathologyto make a hiccup.
  2. to make the sound like a hiccup:The motor hiccuped as it started.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
hic•cup  (hikup, -əp),USA pronunciation n., v., -cuped or -cupped, -cup•ing or -cup•ping. 
n. 
  1. Pathologya quick, involuntary inhalation that follows a spasm of the diaphragm and is suddenly checked by closure of the glottis, producing a short, relatively sharp sound.
  2. PathologyUsually, hiccups. the condition of having such spasms:She got the hiccups just as she began to speak.
  3. [Informal.]a minor difficulty, interruption, setback, etc.:a hiccup in the stock market.

v.i. 
  1. to make the sound of a hiccup:The motor hiccuped as it started.
  2. Pathologyto have the hiccups.
  3. [Informal.]to experience a temporary decline, setback, interruption, etc.:There was general alarm when the economy hiccuped.
Also, hic-cough (hikup, -əp).USA pronunciation 
  • 1570–80; alteration of hocket, hickock, equivalent. to hic + -ock; akin to Low German hick hiccup; see hocket

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
hiccup, hiccough /ˈhɪkʌp/ n
  1. a spasm of the diaphragm producing a sudden breathing in followed by a closing of the glottis, resulting in a sharp sound
  2. the state or condition of having such spasms
  3. informal a minor difficulty or problem
vb ( -cups, -cuping, -cuped, -cups, -cupping, -cupped, -coughs, -coughing, -coughed)
  1. (intransitive) to make a hiccup or hiccups
  2. (transitive) to utter with a hiccup or hiccups
Etymology: 16th Century: of imitative origin
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