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- verb Present participle of
hiccup .
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Examples
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A teen who became famous for hiccuping uncontrollably was charged with murder.
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"Try thinking about something else, like horses," is advice people give you when you are hiccuping.
Jennifer Mee -- from hiccups to murder? Alexandra Petri 2010
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"Try thinking about something else, like horses," is advice people give you when you are hiccuping.
Jennifer Mee -- from hiccups to murder? Alexandra Petri 2010
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You have to dig around in the predictable constellations of hiccuping beats, tremulous chords and spooked wisps of vocal to uncover rewarding efforts, such as Modeselektor's thrill-powered techno enhancement of Morning Mr Magpie or Altrice's six-minute meltdown dare we say megamix? of the whole album.
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The more hiccuping you do, the more likely it is that you will draw media attention to yourself, or that an episode of Law and Order: SVU will be based on your life
Jennifer Mee -- from hiccups to murder? Alexandra Petri 2010
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The more hiccuping you do, the more likely it is that you will draw media attention to yourself, or that an episode of Law and Order: SVU will be based on your life
Jennifer Mee -- from hiccups to murder? Alexandra Petri 2010
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Stevie Smith employs off-kilter rhythm to echo the hiccuping "logic" of "The Murderer": "She was not like other girls—rather diffident, / And that is how we had an accident."
The ABCBs Of Murder Tom Nolan 2011
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You can try praying for divine assistance, but if you're hiccuping while doing it, it sounds a lot less convincing.
Jennifer Mee -- from hiccups to murder? Alexandra Petri 2010
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You can try praying for divine assistance, but if you're hiccuping while doing it, it sounds a lot less convincing.
Jennifer Mee -- from hiccups to murder? Alexandra Petri 2010
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She was standing at the back corner of the house, weeping and hiccuping, shaking uncontrollably, unable to deal with what she had witnessed.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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