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[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.

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noun
noun, N Amer

1: To vomit or retch. (1960 —) .
Chicago Sun-Times If you are Princess Diana, you have to stay home and do needlepoint until all danger of barfing in public is past (1982).

2: An attack of vomiting; vomit, sick. (1966 —) . Hence barfy adjective Nauseating, disgusting; redolent or reminiscent of vomit. Also: liable to vomit, nauseated. (1957 —) .
Toronto Star It's hard enough dealing with kids in the car, let alone barfy kids (2000).

[Origin unknown; perh. imitative.]

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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - kaste op
v. intr. - brække sig, kaste op
n. - opkast, bræk

Nederlands (Dutch)
kotsen

Français (French)
v. tr. - vomir, (US) dégueuler (fam)
v. intr. - vomir, (US) dégueuler (fam)
n. - vomi

Deutsch (German)
v. - kotzen
n. - (Sl) Kotzen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - κάνω εμετό, ξερνοβολώ, (για Η/Υ) δυσλειτουργώ

Italiano (Italian)
vomitare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - vomitar (EUA)

Русский (Russian)
блевать

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - vomitar, nausear
v. intr. - vomitarse
n. - vómito, náusea

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - spy, kräkas

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
呕出, 呕吐, 呕出物

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 嘔出
v. intr. - 嘔吐
n. - 嘔出物

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 토하다
v. intr. - 토하다
n. - 구토

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 嘔吐

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) تقيأ‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮הקיא‬
v. intr. - ‮הקיא‬
n. - ‮התקף הקאה‬

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