hurl v.
(Aus./S.Afr.)1. to vomit; occas. as n.
![]() | Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 21: I’ve had liquid laughs in bars, / And I’ve hurled from moving cars. | |
![]() | Great Aus. Lover Stories 63: Euphemisms for vomit [...] include spue, burp, hurl, the big spit, the long spit. | in|
![]() | Mooi Street (1994) 99: You wanna hurl, go hurl by the trees. | ‘Boo to the Moon’ in|
![]() | Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 59/2: hurl vomit. | |
![]() | Wayne’s World [film script] Garth: Every time you get near her you think you’re gonna hurl. | et al.|
![]() | Fatty 158: ‘I had another big hurl on the pavement and someone had to help me to my room’. | |
![]() | Get Your Cock Out 28: One poor girl hurled up her protein down the back of Strutter’s leathers. | |
![]() | Mad mag. Apr. 10: I’m gonna be sick! (Bride hurls in chapel). | |
![]() | Gutted 70: Camera close-ups on actual knife wounds [...] Made me want to hurl my guts up. | |
![]() | (con. 1973) Johnny Porno 29: I must’ve hurled half a dozen times [...] The dead, Mr. V., they fucking stink. | |
![]() | Sellout (2016) 216: So hurling, that’s also college slang for vomiting, am I right? |
2. in fig. use, to enrage, to make sick.
![]() | 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. |