Definitions for hiccups

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hiccups hic·cup

Spelling: [hik-uhp, -uh p]

IPA: /ˈhɪk ʌp, -əp/

Hiccups is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 106 anagrams from letters in hiccups (cchipsu).

Definitions for hiccups

noun

1. a quick, involuntary inhalation that follows a spasm of the diaphragm and is suddenly checked by closure of the glottis, producing a short, relatively sharp sound.
2. Usually, hiccups. the condition of having such spasms:
3. Informal. a minor difficulty, interruption, setback, etc.:

verb (used without object)

1. to make the sound of a hiccup:
2. to have the hiccups.
3. Informal. to experience a temporary decline, setback, interruption, etc.:

Origin of hiccups

1570-80; alteration of hocket, hickock, equivalent to hic + -ock; akin to Low German hick hiccup; see hocket

Examples for hiccups

Actually, Damascus has been a prominent third party in more recent Londongrad hiccups in the media.

To begin with, he developed a violent attack of hiccups which could not be restrained.

And luckily for Jackson, this upset was the last in a very long line of hiccups that could have spoiled the film.

The grog's not quite out of my head yet; and I find I've got the hiccups.

Wait a minute, though; there's one thing—you're not troubled with the hiccups, are you, after eating supper?

I got there, however, and waited for the hiccups to subside.

“I get hiccups all the time these days,” she says in one 2006 post, written while pregnant with her husband half a world away.

She covered her face with her hands, and her sobs soon passed to hiccups and hysteria.

I paused (as well as my excitement would allow me, for it had brought on the hiccups), and she replied.

Then Rom suddenly, horribly, uncontrollably, was seized with hiccups.