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  • verb Present participle of hiccup.

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Examples

  • The eccentric Southern tradition of "eephing" is best described as the hillbilly equivalent of the hip-hop human "beat box" vocal style -- a kind of hiccupping, rhythmic wheeze that started in rural Tennessee more than 100 years ago.

    - Boing Boing 2006

  • "The eccentric Southern tradition of "eephing" is best described as the hillbilly equivalent of the hip-hop human "beat box" vocal style -- a kind of hiccupping, rhythmic wheeze that started in rural Tennessee more than 100 years ago. ..."

    the Lost Art of Eephing mrdantefontana 2006

  • The reason I say “felt” instead of “heard” is because I was not the one doing the hiccupping.

    Times Two Kristen Henderson 2011

  • Could it be ticking tigers, hiccupping hyenas, or rattlesnakes?

    Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011

  • The reason I say “felt” instead of “heard” is because I was not the one doing the hiccupping.

    Times Two Kristen Henderson 2011

  • Repiggie fatties are always seen coming out of Outback, belching and hiccupping.

    Think Progress » Apple and other advertisers have ‘abandoned’ Fox News because of Glenn Beck. 2010

  • Could it be ticking tigers, hiccupping hyenas, or rattlesnakes?

    Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011

  • You're thinking it's a hopeless predicament, hiccupping every ten to twenty minutes.

    Hiccup Susan Rukeyser 2011

  • Then came the weepy weekend, with endless tears of the hiccupping, losing-it variety--and of course I was still receiving a flood of emails, cards, flower deliveries, and champagne.

    How I Was Un-nominated For The National Book Award 2011

  • I stood like that for a few minutes, hiccupping like mad, holding that dripping foot as far from my body as I could.

    Hiccup Susan Rukeyser 2011

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