hiccup• But he also assumes that the economy will keep chugging along with barely a hiccup of a recession.• Our job today is just a hiccup in time.• A hiccup, possibly, but no decentrestaurant should produce one of that size.• Nausea, vomiting and hiccup with aversion to warm food and desire for cold food.• The sales drive was interrupted by a legalhiccup.• The airline industry's troubles are a merehiccup in an otherwise upwardgrowthtrend.• There were a few minorhiccups in the spaceshuttlelaunch.• That was the only hiccup in Llanelli's 10-try victory, although they were not the highest scorers of the day.• There was a slighthiccup when I couldn't find my car keys, but finally we set off.• The event started with a slight hiccup when it was discovered that the batteries were in the wrong way round.• My training is going very well apart from the slight hiccup with the railway line.
get/have the hiccups• I got the hiccups, excuse me.