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English
Etymology
From Middle English threw, from Old English þrēaw (first and third person past tense of þrāwan), from West Germanic *þreu, from Northwest Germanic *þrerō, from Proto-Germanic *þeþrō (first and third person past tense of *þrēaną), reduplication of *þrēaną.
Pronunciation
Verb
threw
- simple past of throw
- (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of throw
1967, John McPhee, The Pine Barrens, page 66:"But I'd have threw lead at him if I'd been scared enough. I wasn't scared enough."
1979, Investigation of the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr , U.S. Government Printing Office, page 606:I may have threw it away then, or I may have threw it away after I got the passport and didn't need the various other stuff any long.
2005 June 1, Tracy Brown, Criminal Minded: A Novel, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 152:I never should have had all them niggas in my bed for all them years. Never should have threw you out.
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