Please teach me how! If i get a hiccup i am SCREWED FOR HOURS! Its horrible. Ever got a hiccup at a concert? Yea fk that!
Further to what the others are saying it's about stopping the diaphragm spasming.
Another method is to take a deep breath to max capacity, squeeze down with your chest and gut muscles (like how you would do to get veins bulging / increase blood pressure) and hold for as long as you can. On breath release, do it very slowly and same with the intake. Repeat till gone.
Method has benefit of suppressing volume of hiccup if it doesn't go first time.
On topic: I can become pack leader of a bunch of south east asian mangy street / beach dogs in short time. There's always one you have to sort out but after awhile they love getting picked up and thrown into the water. Well planted and with hip action it's surprising how far you can hurl them.