cough out
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[edit]Verb
[edit]cough out (third-person singular simple present coughs out, present participle coughing out, simple past and past participle coughed out)
- (transitive) To remove by coughing, especially figuratively, to say through coughs.
- He coughed out blood.
- "I'm okay," he coughed out.
- (transitive, especially of an ATM) To give (money) to someone.
- Eventually the machine coughed out the money.