Definition of "hiccoughs" [hiccoughs]

• Plural form of hiccough. (noun)
• The hiccups. (noun)

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• "My sobs were uncontrollable now, racking my body like hiccoughs."
• "History boggles minds but also opens them; and allowing for hiccoughs and setbacks, it tells a tale of progress which turns young minds towards optimism as well as understanding."
• "Add to this a rampant failure to acknowledge and palliate agonizing symptoms like breathlessness, itching, hiccoughs, nausea, dizziness, bedsores and draining wounds of surgery."