to boke
- verb
- /bəʊk/
- Slang
- She always feels like she might boke after a roller coaster ride.
Examples
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After eating that undercooked fish, I felt like I was going to boke any minute.
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You make me want to boke, I said, but I was playing for time, looking to find a way out of what was going on.
Fiction book (2002) -
The smell of the rotten eggs made him boke right there on the sidewalk.
Synonyms
To push food and drink out of your stomach through your mouth
To bring food and drink up from your stomach when you feel sick
To force food and drink up from your stomach through your mouth
To force food or liquid out of the stomach through the mouth
To bring food back out of your mouth because you feel sick
To be sick and bring food up from your stomach
Throw up violently many times because you feel sick or drink too much
Throw up forcefully when you feel very sick
To throw up when you feel sick
To throw up food and drink from your stomach
Push food or drink from the stomach out through the mouth
To throw up because you feel sick
To throw up a lot with great force
How Formal
- Informal
- Slang
- NSFW
- UK
Surface Forms
Etymology
Boke as a verb meaning 'to vomit' is British slang, and a helpful way to remember it is that it sounds a little like 'choke' and describes the sudden, unpleasant act of throwing up.