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barf
verb
To vomit.
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Brexit might be the ugliest word in the entire history of language – managing to simultaneously sound like the name of a minor multinational adhesives conglomeration and the noise you make when you barf three litres of semi-digested Weetabix into a metal colander – but that hasn't stopped the prospect of an EU referendum from dominating the news cycle.
But worse, far worse was to come: while the Great Vomit Wave gathered in amplitude and came crashing along the Grandes Boulevards, back in the States the news crews were aloft, the blades of their choppers whipping the colloidal barf into a vortex of Ps and Qs.
The news crews transmitted the terrifying pictures of the barf bore to their stations, and the stations packaged them to the networks, and the networks broadcast them to the world.
"I just keep going until my body's like 'if we don't make her barf of pass out she won't stop'.
After using the word "puke," she says, "You may remark that my vocabulary has taken a turn for the Anglo-Saxon," adding, "God, I'm going to barf my brains out.
"Crime and Punishment," by Fyodor Dostoevsky (the first novel to make me barf).
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It is, depending on your tittle-tattle tolerance levels, the most cockle-warming or barf-inducing celebrity story of the new year.
When he finally came to rest, in a barf-covered chair, he was done for the night.
It has been a little while since our last family ride on the barf-o-go-round.
It's a story that plays out differently at different income levels, but you just know that at some point, these women got up and went to work in the morning after spending an entire night changing barf-covered sheets in tandem with an equally exhausted spouse.
One of the very worst films of last year (along with Keith Lemon: The Film), this ill-judged barf-fest attempts to get us to see the funny side of statutory rape and incest, an endeavour in which it fails spectacularly, if unsurprisingly.
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