Main Entry: throw up

Function: verb

Date: 15th century

transitive verb

1 : to raise quickly
2 : give up, quit <the urge…to throw up all intellectual work — Norman Mailer>
3 : to build hurriedly <new houses thrown up almost overnight>
4 : vomit
5 : to bring forth : produce
6 : to make distinct especially by contrast : cause to stand out
7 : to mention repeatedly by way of reproachintransitive verb : vomit

— throw up one's hands : to admit defeat <in the end throws up his hands in despair — Frank Conroy>