English Dictionary

throw up

verb

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, up. / (now colloquial) To vomit. / To produce something new or unexpected. / To cause something such as dust or water to rise into the air.

She felt sick and had to throw up.

意味（1）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, up.

The servant (who) had first entered had thrown up the window […]

意味（2）

(now colloquial) To vomit.

The baby threw up all over my shirt.

意味（3）

To produce something new or unexpected.

This system has thrown up a few problems.

意味（4）

To cause something such as dust or water to rise into the air.

The car wheels threw up a shower of stones.

意味（5）

(transitive, chiefly dated) To erect, particularly hastily.

Every depression in the ground had been utilized; every rise taken advantage of, to dig rifle-pits or throw up a little earthwork, surrounded with sand-bags […]

意味（6）

(transitive, intransitive) To give up, abandon something.

“No!” returned the spy. “I throw up. I confess that we were so unpopular with the outrageous mob, that I only got away from England at the risk of being ducked to death, and that Cly was so ferreted up and down, that he never would have got away at all but for that sham. Though how this man knows it was a sham, is a wonder of wonders to me.”

意味（7）

To display a gang sign using the hands.

Why don't you go on and throw up ya gang sign. Represent your hood, homey?

意味（8）

(dated, transitive) To enlarge, as a picture reflected on a screen.