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What (who) is barf - definition
barf
(barfs, barfing, barfed)
If someone barfs, they vomit. (mainly AM INFORMAL)
VERB
barf
/barf/ [mainstream slang for "vomit" ] 1. Term of disgust.
This is the closest hackish equivalent of the Val-speak "gag
me with a spoon". (Like, euwww!) See bletch.
2. To say "Barf!" or emit some similar expression of disgust.
"I showed him my latest hack and he barfed" means only that he
complained about it, not that he literally vomited.
3. To fail to work because of unacceptable input, perhaps with
a suitable error message, perhaps not. Examples: "The
division operation barfs if you try to divide by 0." (That
is, the division operation checks for an attempt to divide by
zero, and if one is encountered it causes the operation to
fail in some unspecified, but generally obvious, manner.) "The
text editor barfs if you try to read in a new file before
writing out the old one".
See choke, gag.
In Commonwealth Hackish, "barf" is generally replaced by
"puke" or "vom". barf is sometimes also used as a
metasyntactic variable, like foo or bar.
(1996-02-26)
barfly
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Barfly (disambiguation); Bar fly; Barflies; Bar flies
(barflies)
A barfly is a person who spends a lot of time drinking in bars (AM INFORMAL)
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Examples of use of barf
1. One person would spell walking, another walkin, one bath, another barf.
2. "So this guy proceeds to walk around the plane with a barf bag," says Mr.
3. She will have a "barf bag" with her in the Russian space suit when she takes off.
4. She also had a "barf bag" with her in the Russian space suit when she took off.
5. If you are currently president, rest assured that millions will note and long remember if, say, you barf on the prime minister of Japan.