throw upとは意味・読み方・使い方

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動詞

throw up (三人称単数 現在形 throws up, 現在分詞 throwing up, 過去形 threw up, 過去分詞 thrown up)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw,‎ up.
   • 1910, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Devil's Foot

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

2. (now colloquial) To vomit.

   The baby threw up all over my shirt.

   That cat is always throwing up hairballs.

3. To produce something new or unexpected.

   This system has thrown up a few problems.

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

   The car wheels threw up a shower of stones.

5. (transitive, chiefly dated) To erect, particularly hastily.
   • 1872, Every Saturday (page 96)

     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 […]

   • 2001, Diane Kennedy, Loop-Holes of the Rich: How the Rich Legally Make More Money & Pay Less Tax, Warner Books,, →ISBN, page 70:

     In other words, a business can throw up a huge detour sign in the way of the government.

   • 2007, Marissa Monteilh, Dr. Feelgood, Kensington Books,, →ISBN, page 27:

     The deal was that if anyone started catching feelings, he could throw up a stop sign and the other would honor it.

6. (transitive, intransitive) To give up, abandon something.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:

     “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.”

   • 2011, Alan Bennett, "Baffled at a Bookcase", London Review of Books, XXXIII.15:

     In 1944, believing, as people in Leeds tended to do, that flying bombs or no flying bombs, things were better Down South, Dad threw up his job with the Co-op and we migrated to Guildford.

7. To display a gang sign using the hands.
   • 2005, Brandon Bennett, Moon in Gemini, iUniverse,, →ISBN, page 56:

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

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

同意語

• (vomit): chuck up, hurl, upchuck (口語); vomit

派生語

• throw up the sponge

名詞

throw up (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) Vomit.

   We had to scrub the seats for throw up when we left the dog in the car.

別の表記

• throwup, throw-up

間投詞

throw up

1. (dismissal) Used as an expression of frustration or to dismiss a conversation partner
   • 2011, Kate Cann, Consumed:

     Oh, throw up, thought Rayne. Don't say they've taken a fancy to each other.

   • 2017 December 5, @schlichting1103, Twitter‎^[1]:

     Oh, THROW UP!! Take that crap to CNN or MSNBC. You won't be missed here; I promise you that...

   • 2018, Hillary Homzie, Apple Pie Promises, Sky Pony Press:

     Oh, throw up. Really? Since when does Hannah need to be rescued by anyone for anything?

   • 2020 December 10, @SherK50662136, Twitter‎^[2]:

     Oh throw up... Biden & Harris are both losers.

   • 2022 March 22, @Bandwagonfan9, Twitter‎^[3]:

     Oh throw up. Pringle is better than Hardman. Chiefs done for a long ass time

参考

• throw down

アナグラム

• upthrow

アナグラム

• upthrow

アナグラム

• upthrow