cough out
Upper Intermediate (B2) neutral
To push something out of your throat by coughing.
"He bent over and coughed out the smoke he had accidentally inhaled."
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Inside a Maximum Security Prison’s Isolation Unit | Solitary Nation (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
FRONTLINE PBS | Official · 3:45
Kid, cough out.
Cougar Energy, Patrick Radden Keefe, Peabody Snub | Fact Check for Patrick Radden Keefe
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard · 24:25
And then I walked over and then I I left actually to get my cough out.