Definition of barf
barf 
interjection
- Term of disgust.
You hooked up with him? Like, barf!
More words meaning: exclamations (list of)
More words meaning: gross, disgusting, creepy
intransitive verb
- to vomit.
More words meaning: to vomit
by JB C., New York, NY, USA, Sep 14 1997 (Edit definition)
- To fail to work because of unacceptable input, perhaps with a suitable error message, perhaps not.
The division operation barfs if you try to divide by 0.
The text editor barfs if you try to read in a new file before writing out the old one.
More words meaning: computer slang
More words meaning: to break, ruin, destroy
noun
- vomit.
You got barf on your shoes.
More words meaning: vomit
- "Barf" is sometimes also used as a metasyntactic variable like "foo" and "bar".
More words meaning: computer slang
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- barf: insta-barf
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