as in to vomit
to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth
the drunken reveler staggered out the door and promptly puked in the bushes
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Recent Examples of puke
Those that made this list checked off all our experts’ must-haves, actually tasted decent, and didn’t leave me puking on the side of the course.
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Jennifer Heimlich, SELF, 26 June 2025
There are, inevitably and perhaps predictably, dire consequences here, as signaled when I-Ann has to run to the street to puke during her shift.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 May 2025
English-language creators have also puked out a torrent of AI musical erotica, but nothing that plays on a piece of cultural heritage that’s been memed to oblivion as much as A Midsummer Night’s Lewd Dream.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 14 May 2025
Eventually, obsession over the joke drives Cartman to puke incessantly.
—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Jennifer Heimlich, SELF, 26 June 2025
There are, inevitably and perhaps predictably, dire consequences here, as signaled when I-Ann has to run to the street to puke during her shift.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 May 2025
English-language creators have also puked out a torrent of AI musical erotica, but nothing that plays on a piece of cultural heritage that’s been memed to oblivion as much as A Midsummer Night’s Lewd Dream.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 14 May 2025
Eventually, obsession over the joke drives Cartman to puke incessantly.
—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for puke
vomit
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Robert returns to his desk only to find that Invisigal had stolen him a donut as a gesture of good faith, which is now smeared all over his keyboard for the new janitor, Water Boy, to clean by vomiting H20 on the mess.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
22 Oct. 2025
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Katy Puig vomited a gush of seawater as a boater hoisted her unconscious body out of the water, fighting the current to get her to a yacht that had come to the rescue before first responders arrived in a flotilla.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
19 Oct. 2025
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“Puke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puke. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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