Green’s Dictionary of Slang

hurl v.

(Aus./S.Afr.)

1. to vomit; occas. as n.

[Aus]B. Humphries Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 21: I’ve had liquid laughs in bars, / And I’ve hurled from moving cars.
[Aus]F.J. Hardy in Great Aus. Lover Stories 63: Euphemisms for vomit [...] include spue, burp, hurl, the big spit, the long spit.
[SA]P. Slabolepszy ‘Boo to the Moon’ in Mooi Street (1994) 99: You wanna hurl, go hurl by the trees.
[NZ]McGill Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 59/2: hurl vomit.
[US]M. Myers et al. Wayne’s World [film script] Garth: Every time you get near her you think you’re gonna hurl.
[Aus]M. Coleman Fatty 158: ‘I had another big hurl on the pavement and someone had to help me to my room’.
[UK]M. Manning Get Your Cock Out 28: One poor girl hurled up her protein down the back of Strutter’s leathers.
[US]Mad mag. Apr. 10: I’m gonna be sick! (Bride hurls in chapel).
[Scot]T. Black Gutted 70: Camera close-ups on actual knife wounds [...] Made me want to hurl my guts up.
[US](con. 1973) C. Stella Johnny Porno 29: I must’ve hurled half a dozen times [...] The dead, Mr. V., they fucking stink.
[US]P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 216: So hurling, that’s also college slang for vomiting, am I right?

2. in fig. use, to enrage, to make sick.

[Aus]T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 41: The Pole didn’t say nothing about the Bastard’s old woman being a touch. Vodavitch made it up, just to get him hurled.