Hiccups are the jumping hic sounds your chest makes and cannot stop. Get the hiccups, cure your hiccups, hiccups again.
The diaphragm spasms and the vocal cords snap shut a fraction of a second later, which is what makes the noise. Almost all bouts stop within minutes; ones lasting more than two days are a medical matter and rare. The record is decades. Note that none of the folk cures has good evidence behind it.
1nounhiccupsThe jumping sounds the chest makes involuntarily.
“I drank my fizzy drink too fast and got hiccups.”
hiccups is an involuntary spasm.
Also accepted in games: hiccup