Definition of barf
barf 
intransitive verb
- to vomit.
Submitted by JC Chambers, New York, NY, USA, Sep 14 1997.
- 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.
interjection
- Term of disgust.
You hooked up with him? Like, barf!
noun
- vomit.
You got barf on your shoes.
- "Barf" is sometimes also used as a metasyntactic variable like "foo" and "bar".
Original source: The Jargon File.
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