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Hiccup   /hˈɪkəp/   Listen
Hiccup

verb
(past hiccupped; past part. hiccupped or hiccuped; pres. part. hicupping or hiccuping)
1.
Breathe spasmodically, and make a sound.  Synonym: hiccough.



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"Hiccup" Quotes from Famous Books



... let fall his hand in doffing it; had it given him, and rode away; his eyes isinglass, and set in his head, as I saw through the window, and in a manner speechless—all his language hiccup. My dog needed not to have gone so deep with this tough old Grimes. But the rascal was in his ...
— Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson
... great East Side High School, had been making hiccup-like sounds of interruption. He blurted now, ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis


Words linked to "Hiccup" :   take a breath, hiccough, plural, inborn reflex, symptom, respire, reflex, reflex response, plural form, reflex action, suspire, breathe, unconditioned reflex, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, physiological reaction


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