Meanings (ES + gloss)
lanzar
To produce or reveal something new or unexpected.
This system has thrown up a few problems.
levantar
To cause something such as dust or water to rise into the air.
The car wheels threw up a shower of stones.
construir rápidamente y mal
To erect, particularly hastily.
Every depression in the ground had been utilized; every rise taken advantage of, to dig rifle-pits or throw up a little earthwork, surrounded with sand-bags […]
In other words, a business can throw up a huge detour sign in the way of the government.
abandonar • dejar • parar
To give up, abandon something.
In 1944, believing, as people in Leeds tended to do, that flying bombs or no flying bombs, things were better Down South, Dad threw up his job with the Co-op and we migrated to Gui…
“No!” returned the spy. “I throw up. I confess that we were so unpopular with the outrageous mob, that I only got away from England at the risk of being ducked to death, and that C…
echar barrio
To display a gang sign using the hands.
Why don't you go on and throw up ya gang sign. Represent your hood, homey?
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