Green’s Dictionary of Slang

upchuck v.

[chuck v.2 (13)]

1. (orig. US) to vomit; thus upchucking n., the act of vomiting; upchuck n., vomit.

[US](con. 1920s) Dos Passos Big Money in USA (1966) 906: He had to stop to upchuck on the side of the road.
[US]L. Uris Battle Cry (1964) 365: The wicked-looking Marines [...] upchucked into the ocean.
[US]F. Kohner Gidget Goes Hawaiian 11: My old man just up-chucks when Larrie calls him Freddie.
[US]L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 231: [M]y wife was sick; she upchucked.
[US]C. Hiaasen Skin Tight 176: Maggie Gonzalez upchucked gloriously all over Chemo’s gun arm.
[US]T. Dorsey Florida Roadkill 18: If only she would stop upchucking, I can still score.
[US]‘Randy Everhard’ Tattoo of a Naked Lady 135: Shades convulsed with more upchuck.
[US]J. Stahl I, Fatty 57: If you’re lucky, you’ll just scare people. Most likely you’ll make ’em upchuck.’.
[Scot]A. Parks April Dead 23: ‘[I]t wasn’t me who’d upchucked all over his floor’.

2. as play on lit. use of ‘throw up’.

B. Reed ‘Messman on C.E.’s Altar’ in Passing Strange (2015) 15: They hadn’t as yet by then torn down ther working-class cottages to upchuck the North Sydney Business district.