barf

barf
    n 1: the matter ejected in vomiting [syn: {vomit}, {vomitus},
         {puke}, {barf}]
    v 1: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After
         drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged
         continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave
         him last night" [syn: {vomit}, {vomit up}, {purge}, {cast},
         {sick}, {cat}, {be sick}, {disgorge}, {regorge}, {retch},
         {puke}, {barf}, {spew}, {spue}, {chuck}, {upchuck}, {honk},
         {regurgitate}, {throw up}] [ant: {keep down}]
    

barf
 /barf/, n.,v.

   [common; from mainstream slang meaning `vomit']

   1. interj. Term of disgust. This is the closest hackish equivalent of
   the Valspeak "gag me with a spoon". (Like, euwww!) See {bletch}.

   2. vi. To say "Barf!" or emit some similar expression of disgust. "I
   showed him my latest hack and he barfed" means only that he complained
   about it, not that he literally vomited.

   3. vi. To fail to work because of unacceptable input, perhaps with a
   suitable error message, perhaps not. Examples: "The division operation
   barfs if you try to divide by 0." (That is, the division operation
   checks for an attempt to divide by zero, and if one is encountered it
   causes the operation to fail in some unspecified, but generally
   obvious, manner.) "The text editor barfs if you try to read in a new
   file before writing out the old one."

   See {choke}. In Commonwealth Hackish, barf is generally replaced by
   `puke' or `vom'. {barf} is sometimes also used as a {metasyntactic
   variable}, like {foo} or {bar}.
    

barf

   /barf/ [mainstream slang for "vomit"] 1.  Term of disgust.
   This is the closest hackish equivalent of the Val\-speak "gag
   me with a spoon". (Like, euwww!)  See {bletch}.

   2. To say "Barf!" or emit some similar expression of disgust.
   "I showed him my latest hack and he barfed" means only that he
   complained about it, not that he literally vomited.

   3. To fail to work because of unacceptable input, perhaps with
   a suitable error message, perhaps not.  Examples: "The
   division operation barfs if you try to divide by 0."  (That
   is, the division operation checks for an attempt to divide by
   zero, and if one is encountered it causes the operation to
   fail in some unspecified, but generally obvious, manner.) "The
   text editor barfs if you try to read in a new file before
   writing out the old one".

   See {choke}, {gag}.

   In Commonwealth Hackish, "barf" is generally replaced by
   "puke" or "vom".  {barf} is sometimes also used as a
   {metasyntactic variable}, like {foo} or {bar}.

   (1996-02-26)
    

36 Moby Thesaurus words for "barf":
      be nauseated, be seasick, be sick, bring up, cascade, cast,
      choke on, chuck up, disgorge, disgorgement, egest, egesta,
      egestion, feed the fish, feel disgust, gag, gagging, heave,
      heave the gorge, heaves, heaving, keck, nausea, puke, regurgitate,
      regurgitation, reject, retch, sick up, sicken at, spew, throw up,
      upchuck, vomit, vomiting, vomition