Definition of barf
barf 
interjection
- exclamation of disgust.
You hooked up with him? Like, barf!
- See more words with the same meaning: exclamations (list of).
- See more words with the same meaning: gross, disgusting, creepy.
Originally submitted by Anonymous on Sep 28 2008. (Edit this definition.)
noun
- used as an example or placeholder variable, in the same way as "foo" and "bar".
So let's say foo is 1, bar is 2, and barf is 3. foo + bar + barf = 6.
- See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.
Originally submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Sep 28 2009. (Edit this definition.)
noun - uncountable
- vomit.
You got barf on your shoes.
- See more words with the same meaning: vomit.
Originally submitted by Anonymous on Sep 28 2008. (Edit this definition.)
verb - intransitive
- to vomit.
- See more words with the same meaning: to vomit.
Originally submitted by JB C. from New York, NY, USA on Sep 14 1997. (Edit this definition.)
- of software, to "crash" (fail) due to input that it doesn't handle properly, or cannot be handle at all. Usually implies that the program emits some spew of messages (or corrupt data) before terminating.
The division operation barfs if you try to divide by 0.
It turns out it was barfing because I was loading the 32-bit version of the DLL into a 64-bit process.
- See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.
- See more words with the same meaning: to break, ruin, destroy.
Originally submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Sep 28 2009. (Edit this definition.)
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- barf
- insta-barf - Something or someone that makes you automatically/instantly throw up.
Slang terms with the same meaning
- computer slang
- 'puter - Definitions include: "computer."
- 0 day - Definitions include: commercial software available for piracy on the same day it is released to the public.
- 1337 - Definitions include: elite; COOL.
- 133t - Definitions include: "elite."
- 143 - Definitions include: "I love you".
- 1432 - Definitions include: "I love you too".
- 31337 - Definitions include: computer speak for "elite."
- 404 - Definitions include: missing or misplaced.
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- exclamations (list of)
- -tastic - Definitions include: suffix used to add emphasis to nearly any word.
- abso-fucking-lutely - Definitions include: absolutely.
- ACK - Definitions include: as a question, to enquire whether someone is present.
- aight - Definitions include: "alright".
- ain't - Definitions include: is not; am not; are not; do not; have not; will not; etc.
- alley oop - Definitions include: an exclamation uttered before lifting something.
- already - Definitions include: equivalent to "I already know" or "You already know," as if to say "YES!" emphatically.
- alrighty - Definitions include: "all right".
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- to vomit
- bark at the ants - Definitions include: to vomit outdoors.
- blow chunks - Definitions include: There is a joke (and several variants) in which someone tells another that they got too drunk and "blew chunks." "That happens all the time," says the other person.
- blow groceries - Definitions include: to vomit.
- bob - Definitions include: acronym for "bend over buddy."
- boke it - Definitions include: to vomit.
- boot - Definitions include: very unattractive.
- boot and rally - Definitions include: to vomit ("boot") due to over-consumption of alcohol, and then continue partying ("rally.")
- bow down before the porcelain god - Definitions include: to vomit into a toilet.
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- to break, ruin, destroy
- bomb - Definitions include: good; excellent; "cool".
- bork - Definitions include: to break or ruin.
- brick - Definitions include: very cold.
- fry - Definitions include: to die by the electric chair, or to kill by the electric chair.
- fuck up - Definitions include: a person who messes up; "a screw up".
- go kaput - Definitions include: to break, to fail.
- hose - Definitions include: n.penis .
- key - Definitions include: Important, vital to the situation.
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- gross, disgusting, creepy
- creeper - Definitions include: a weird or disturbed person.
- fatal attraction - Definitions include: someone who will not allow a relationship to end.
- freaky - Definitions include: sexually voracious.
- gnarly - Definitions include: very good, excellent; COOL.
- gritter - Definitions include: Used to define someone who is of the red-neck, trailer trash, low morals variety. Used as a serious insult.
- grody - Definitions include: gross.
- heinous - Definitions include: disgusting.
- kicking - Definitions include: stylish; SMOOTH.
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- vomit
- horf - Definitions include: to throw up.
- hork - Definitions include: to cough up phlegm.
- pavement pizza - Definitions include: vomit on the ground.
- puke - Definitions include: vomit.
- puke shooter - Definitions include: The puke shooter refers to burping up a bubble of puke. Usually the victim of a puke shooter is caught totally off guard. A puke shooter may cause the victim to vomit due to a unpleasant aftertaste but not in every case. If the victim is intoxicated a puke shooter may be the first symptoms of alcohol induced physical illness (also see hot spits).
- sick - Definitions include: great; "cool", "awesome".
- spew - Definitions include: vomit.
- street pizza - Definitions include: vomit on the pavement.
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