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Verb: puke  pyook
Usage: informal
  1. [vulgar] Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
    "After drinking too much, the students puked";
    - vomit, vomit up, purge, sick, cat [informal], be sick, disgorge, regorge [archaic], retch, barf [informal], spew [informal], spue [archaic], chuck [informal], upchuck [N. Amer, informal], honk [Brit, informal], regurgitate, throw up, vom [informal], keck [informal], hurl [informal], chuck up [Brit, informal], chunder [Brit, informal], boke [UK, dialect], boak [UK, dialect]
     
  2. (finance) sell an asset at a loss; fall in price
Noun: puke  pyook
Usage: vulgar
  1. A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
    "you cowardly little pukes!";
    - rotter [Brit, informal], dirty dog [informal], rat [informal], skunk [informal], stinker [informal], stinkpot [N. Amer, informal], bum [N. Amer, informal], crumb [N. Amer, informal], lowlife [informal], scumbag [informal], so-and-so [informal], git [Brit, informal], scumbag [informal], sleazebucket [informal], toad [informal], scuzz [N. Amer, informal], sleazeball [informal], toerag [Brit, informal], sleazebag [informal], sod [Brit, informal], swine [informal], ratbag [Brit, informal], scuzzball [N. Amer, informal], scuzzbag [N. Amer, informal], scuzzbucket [N. Amer, informal], slimebag [informal], dirtbag [US, informal], slimeball [informal]
     
  2. The matter ejected in vomiting
    - vomit, vomitus, barf [informal], vom [informal], spew [informal], sick [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: pukes, puking, puked

Type of: body waste, disagreeable person, egest, eliminate, excrement, excreta, excrete, excretion, excretory product, pass, unpleasant person

Encyclopedia: Puke