To lose a competition by one's own mistakes, usually near the end of the contest.
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That team had the game won, but they coughed it up in the end.
Submitted on August 16, 2009
Additional definitions for 'cough up':
| cough up | To expel from the lungs, throat, etc. by coughing. |
| cough up | to give up something |
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