as in to vomit
to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth
the movie's in-your-face violence made us want to barf
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Screaming in hieroglyphs, tearing space open, barfing lava and pissing neon.
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Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 23 Jan. 2024
That weight reduction should minimize buffeting (and barfing).
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2015
In February, when asked to describe how college admissions was going so far this year, one affluent white parent in Los Angeles sent me a text with three emoji faces: one was sad, one was blue-faced and shivering, and one looked ready to barf.
—Nicole Laporte, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2022
Mike has to barf at the violent movie, and Jacob owns him for it.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 30 July 2021
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Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 23 Jan. 2024
That weight reduction should minimize buffeting (and barfing).
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2015
In February, when asked to describe how college admissions was going so far this year, one affluent white parent in Los Angeles sent me a text with three emoji faces: one was sad, one was blue-faced and shivering, and one looked ready to barf.
—Nicole Laporte, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2022
Mike has to barf at the violent movie, and Jacob owns him for it.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 30 July 2021
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“Barf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barf. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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