Usually means: Expel air, clearing throat forcefully.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word cough up:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. cough up: Merriam-Webster
  2. cough up: Collins English Dictionary
  3. cough up: Vocabulary.com
  4. cough-up: Wordnik
  5. cough (sth) up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. cough up: Wiktionary
  7. cough up: Dictionary.com
  8. cough up: Rhymezone
  9. cough up: FreeDictionary.org
  10. cough up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. cough up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. cough up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cough up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cough up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cough up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cough up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Cough up: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (cough up)

verb:  To expel from the lungs, throat, stomach, etc. by coughing.
verb:  (idiomatic, transitive, informal) To reluctantly or unwillingly give.
verb:  (of money) To pay or disburse reluctantly (perhaps influenced by coffers of money).
verb:  (of other objects) To hand over, give.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To confess; to give up information.
verb:  (idiomatic) To lose a competition by one's own mistakes, usually near the end of the contest.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To spill, to fumble.

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