• a teaspoon of vinegar.
• drinking water out of the wrong side of a glass.
• yell or sing as loud as you can.
• eat a spoonful of sugar.
• plug your ears with your fingers and drink through a straw.
• pinch the middle of your palm as hard as you can.
• eat a wedge of lemon.
• somebody unexpectedly pulls out a fifty dollar note and says "if you can hiccup again I'll give you fifty dollars".
• eat a teaspoon of peanut butter.
• recite "the litany against hiccups" – as follows;

" i must not hiccup. hiccups are the lung-killers. hiccups are the little deaths that bring total obliteration. i will face my hiccups. i will permit them to pass over me and through me. and when they has gone past i will turn the inner eye to see their path. where the hiccups have gone there will be nothing. only I will remain. "