Meanings
- dialectalnonstandardpastsimple past of throw; threw.
2003, Mark Harris, The Southpaw http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0803273371&id=ZcXrSFki8LYC&pg=PA42&lpg=PA42&sig=luXWpLfgFo79Qyrz6QZ0yzyqrrU I throwed slow and easy, and I felt in my mind like the sight of Pop out there on that same pitching hill.
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I come a booming down on a cut bank with smoky ghosts of big trees on it, and the current throwed me off to the left and shot by, amongst a lot of snags that fairly roared, the current was tearing by them so swift.
1885, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry FinnThe Devil looked around and he picked the next biggest one he could find and he throwed it over the fence.
1988, Leonard W Roberts, South from Hell-Fer-Sartin1991, Ben K Green, Some More Horse Tradin’ http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0803270925&id=IkYA69A0Me0C&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&sig=qMZfjtlvPlVLAVpmCe6OsQkXkuw I’d lost my hat, tore my fingernails off on the saddle horn, and was damn near throwed when he lost his breath and throwed his head up and stopped!
- dialectalnonstandardparticiplepastpast participle of throw; thrown.
If they want a light-weight, to be throwed for practice, Cornwall, Devonshire, or Lancashire, let ’em throw me.
1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC4 more examples
I reckoned Tom Sawyer couldn’t a done it no neater himself. Of course he would a throwed more style into it, but I can’t do that very handy, not being brung up to it.
1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLCThe Blocker was a versatile loop. It could be throwed from hossback or afoot, and could be used for a head ketch, heelin’, or forefootin’.
1989, Ramon F Adams, The Old-Time Cowhand1991, Ben K Green, Some More Horse Tradin’ http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0803270925&id=IkYA69A0Me0C&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&sig=qMZfjtlvPlVLAVpmCe6OsQkXkuw I’d lost my hat, tore my fingernails off on the saddle horn, and was damn near throwed when he lost his breath and throwed his head up and stopped!
They had one motel in that town, and friends of ours owned it, but we got throwed out of it before it got dark after they got to fighting.
2004, Peter Golenbock, Nascar Confidential
comparative more throwed · superlative most throwed
- slangIntoxicated, especially by codeine-promethazine cough syrup.
Syrup got me throwed, mouth is full of gold / If I overdose, just let 'em know
2014, “Hella Hoes”performed by A$AP Rocky
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Regularized form of threw and thrown.
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throwed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/throwed
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