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barf

nounverbinterjectionattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//bɑːf//
  • United States//bɑɹf//

Vomit.

noun

  1. 1

    Vomit.

Etymology

Uncertain. Probably of imitative origin.

verb

  1. 1

    To vomit.

  2. 2

    slangOf a system: to fail.

    The program barfed as a result of the invalid input.

interjection

  1. 1

    An expression of disgust.

    2011, "This is My Jam", season 2, episode 13 of Regular Show Mordecai: You can't touch music. But music can touch you. Rigby: Oh, barf.

Forms

past tense
barfed
past participle
barfed
present participle
barfing
third person singular
barfs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).