from good ole merriam-webster.
A Dissertation on Regurgitation The 1970s and 1980s
Anthropologists of the future who study the slang of the 1970s and 1980s might conclude from the many expressions and terms that describe the act of vomiting that American youth had little time for any activity other than vomiting.
The verbs blow, lose, and toss, the last two of which were standalone terms for vomiting, spawned a slew of vomit synonyms, including blow chunks, blow cookies, blow grist, blow lunch, lose it, lose lunch, lose one's groceries, toss cookies, toss groceries, and toss tacos. Similarly, Ralph and Earl meant to vomit, as did their cousins call Earl, talk to Earl, talk to Ralph on the big white phone, and go to Europe with Ralph and Earl in a Buick. Fred and Hughie (call Hughie) also lent their names to the act. Borrowing terms that had been prominent in earlier generations and coining new terms of their own, they certainly had a rich and varied vocabulary when it came to regurgitation.
The toilet as the receptacle of vomit figured largely in the language of regurgitation. Bow to the porcelain god, drive the porcelain bus, hug the porcelain god, make love to the porcelain goddess, marry your porcelain mistress, pray to the porcelain god, pray to the enamel god, talk into the porcelain telephone, worship the throne, and worship the porcelain god all meant the same thing, and it was not pretty.
There were a number of miscellaneous expressions (be to the curb, chew the cheese, chum the fish, decorate your shoes, laugh at the carpet, reverse gears, ride the Buick, sell Buicks, shoot your cookies, spill the blue groceries, spit beef, technicolor yawn, throw donuts, water buffalo, and waste groceries) and then an impressive, graphic-sounding string of single-word synonyms, including barf, bison, boag, boot, burl, chummy, chunk, hack, spew, spule, wheeze, woof, yak, yank, and zuke.
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