noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
A hacking cough from the porch heralded the arrival of Nancy Little and the Doctor.
▪
And I looked, dry hacking cough and head congestion.
▪
Arriving there, he moved from flophouse to flophouse because none of his fellow tenants could endure his hacking cough .
▪
Dry, teasing, hacking cough with a sense of suffocation.
▪
I have this little dry hacking cough .
▪
Whether or not we will shortly have a passive computer lobby, it certainly gives a new meaning to the hacking cough .