chucking up

Tossing something higher

Chucking up is British slang for vomiting: He was chucking up in the toilet all night.

The phrase suggests forceful ejection—the stomach chucking its contents upward.

Less commonly, to chuck up can mean to abandon or quit something: She chucked up her job and moved abroad.

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vomiting · purging · heaving · disgorging · regurgitating · tossing · pitching · spewing · evacuating · ejecting · chunder · abandoning · surrendering · quitting · launching · catapulting · renouncing · forfeiting

Opposites
digestive direction

chucking upkeeping down

Maintaining at low level

holding down · swallowing · digesting · ingesting · retaining

physical state/health

chucking uprecovering

Regaining health or strength

Family

chuck, chucks, chucked, chucking, up, ups, upped, upping

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Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG