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to honk

to honk

4 9.3
To throw up when you feel sick
  • verb
  • /hɔŋk/
  • NSFW
translation icon : vomitar
  • The ride was so rough that I couldn't help but honk all over the backseat.

I don't now, but I can tell sometimes when I'm just beyond the point of, of any coming back to earth, I'll honk.

Examples

  • Elaine's five-year-old son was taking lessons, using his finger to close one nostril, leaning over and honking into the grass.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Wait, should I honk it out or is that rude?

  • Boy, he is really honking.

    Speedway (1968)

  • She's really honking.

    Speedway (1968)

  • After drinking too much at the party, I had to rush to the bathroom to honk.

  • She felt nauseous on the roller coaster and ended up honking in the bushes.

Synonyms

to throw up
vsto honk
  • Informal
296 2.3

To push food and drink out of your stomach through your mouth

is a slang single word rather than a neutral phrasal verb
to puke
vsto honk
  • NSFW
186 6.6

To bring food and drink up from your stomach when you feel sick

is used as a slang label with grimmer or playful tone
to vomit
vsto honk
148 1.0

To force food and drink up from your stomach through your mouth

is the same action but marked as slang in everyday talk
to be sick
vsto honk
109 1.7

To bring food or drink up from the stomach through the mouth

is a slang single verb form rather than a neutral phrase
to barf
vsto honk
  • NSFW
38 7.7

To force food or liquid out of the stomach through the mouth

is a marked slang term rather than neutral speech
to retch
vsto honk
9 7.2

To make a strong, uncontrolled effort to vomit, sometimes bringing up food from your stomach

is a slang word for the act itself, not the dry heaving effort
to cast
vsto honk
  • Archaic
9 9.3

To throw up what is in the stomach

is a slang term used informally, not neutral factual wording
to spew
vsto honk
  • Informal
9 5.7

To forcefully throw up food and drink from your stomach

is a slang word that is less focused on violent force
to chuck
vsto honk
  • UK
7 9.6

To be sick and bring food up from your stomach

is a slang label with a stronger joking or crude feel
to regurgitate
vsto honk
5 7.7

To bring food or liquid from the stomach back into the mouth

is slang for human vomiting rather than feeding or mild return
to upchuck
vsto honk
  • NSFW
3 8.8

To throw up food and drink from your stomach

is a slang word used more playfully than formal terms
to vomit up
vsto honk
  • Informal
3 3.6

Push food or drink from the stomach out through the mouth

is used as slang in casual speech rather than neutral phrasing
to sick
vsto honk
1 7.4

To throw up

is a slang label showing more playful or crude tone
to boke
vsto honk
  • Slang
1 9.9

To throw up when you feel sick

is a general slang term not tied to one region
to chunder
vsto honk
  • Australian
1 9.9

To throw up because you feel sick

is a slang word used more widely beyond rough comic contexts
to spue
vsto honk
  • NSFW
1 9.9

To force something out of the mouth, like saliva or vomit

is a slang verb for stomach contents only, not general spitting
to disgorge
vsto honk
8.7

To push food or drink out of the mouth because you are sick

is a slang form used in ordinary speech not formal language
to regorge
vsto honk
9.9

To bring food from the stomach up through the mouth, often to feed young or when sick

is a slang word and not a formal or literary term

How Forceful

to spew
  • Informal
9 5.7
vomit
  • NSFW
52 2.3
to honk
  • NSFW
4 9.3
to retch
9 7.2

Surface Forms

honk infinitive
honked past
honked past participle
honking present participle
honks third person singular

Etymology

A helpful way to remember the slang use of honk ('to vomit') is to think of the rough, sudden sound of throwing up; people compared that noise to a 'honk', and the word came to be used for vomiting.