threw

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.

verb

  1. simple past of throw
  2. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of throw
    "But I'd have threw lead at him if I'd been scared enough. I wasn't scared enough." 1967, John McPhee, The Pine Barrens, page 66
    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. 1979, Investigation of the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr[…], U.S. Government Printing Office, page 606
    I never should have had all them niggas in my bed for all them years. Never should have threw you out. 1 June 2005, Tracy Brown, Criminal Minded: A Novel, St. Martin's Publishing Group, page 152

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