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Recent Examples of upchuck
Fans of Pitch Perfect, which famously begins with Camp's Aubrey profusely upchucking all over the crowd at the a cappella finals, will be, if not delighted, at least amused to know that her new film, Bride Hard, begins in much the same way.
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Lauren Huff Published, EW.com, 21 June 2025
The two men clash but then go on to respect each other after Emma takes a chunk of a scalp from a nun, upchucks some weird-looking goo and then taunts/terrorizes those around her.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 6 June 2025
But there are also far more lurid definitions in common parlance: Ralphing means upchucking from drink, boufing is ingesting alcohol anally (not kidding here, look it up), and the triangle is a three-way consisting of two men and one woman.
—Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 30 Sep. 2018
The kids can’t seem to help upchucking on you and whining.
—Amy Tara Koch, The Seattle Times, 25 Aug. 2017
Lauren Huff Published, EW.com, 21 June 2025
The two men clash but then go on to respect each other after Emma takes a chunk of a scalp from a nun, upchucks some weird-looking goo and then taunts/terrorizes those around her.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 6 June 2025
But there are also far more lurid definitions in common parlance: Ralphing means upchucking from drink, boufing is ingesting alcohol anally (not kidding here, look it up), and the triangle is a three-way consisting of two men and one woman.
—Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 30 Sep. 2018
The kids can’t seem to help upchucking on you and whining.
—Amy Tara Koch, The Seattle Times, 25 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for upchuck
vomit
Verb
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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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“Upchuck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/upchuck. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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