Verb: keck
Usage: informal
Usage: dialect
Usage: informal
- Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
"After drinking too much, the students kecked";
- vomit, vomit up, purge, sick, cat [informal], be sick [Brit], disgorge, regorge [archaic], retch, barf [informal], spew [informal], spue [archaic], chuck [informal], upchuck [N. Amer, informal], honk [Brit, informal], regurgitate, throw up [informal], chuck up [Brit, informal], hurl [informal], vom [informal], boak [UK, dialect], boke [UK, dialect], chunder [Brit, informal], ralph [N. Amer, informal], bring up
Usage: dialect
- Coarse erect biennial Old World herb introduced as a weed in eastern North America
"keck grew abundantly along the roadside";
- cow parsley, wild chervil, Anthriscus sylvestris
Derived forms: kecked, kecking, kecks
Type of: egest, eliminate, excrete, herb, herbaceous plant, pass
Part of: Anthriscus, genus Anthriscus
Encyclopedia: Keck, Gary