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PONY UP

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give reluctantly

Example:

He coughed up some money for his children's tuition

Synonyms:

cough up; pony up; spit up

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "pony up" is one way to...):

give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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