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to puke my guts out

to puke my guts out

7 9.9
Throw up violently many times because you feel sick or drink too much
  • idiom
  • NSFW
translation icon : vomitar hasta el alma
  • I was trying to get this job for awhile... next thing I know, I'm looking at a black garbage can puking my guts out.
  • want to puke my guts out
  • puking my guts out this morning

Examples

  • He drank expired milk and spent the night puking his guts out from food poisoning.

  • I mean, I've seen you dressed as a cheerleader... hugging a toilet bowl, puking your guts out.

    Purple Violets (2007)

  • New guy's in the corner puking his guts out.

    Tommy Boy (1995)

  • Just being near him made me want to puke my guts out.

    Freeway (1996)

  • Be advised he was last seen puking his guts out in the john.

    Crown Vic (2019)

  • If you weren't in the bathroom puking your guts out, we would have won.

    Living Will... (2011)

  • While he was puking his guts out, the mother simply looked on while he continued his retching.

    Blog text (4)

  • After too many drinks at the party, I ended up puking my guts out in the bathroom.

  • Feeling nauseous from the flu, she found herself puking her guts out every hour.

Synonyms

to throw up
vsto puke my guts out
  • Informal
296 2.3

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

is more intense and repeated often following illness or heavy drinking
to puke
vsto puke my guts out
  • NSFW
186 6.6

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

is stronger and repeated emphasizing violent sickness or drinking effects
to vomit
vsto puke my guts out
148 1.0

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

is harsher and often repeated especially after illness or heavy drinking
to be sick
vsto puke my guts out
109 1.7

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

is stronger repeated and often linked specifically to illness or drinking
to barf
vsto puke my guts out
  • NSFW
38 7.7

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

is the more extreme violent and repeated form tied to illness or drinking
to spew
vsto puke my guts out
  • Informal
9 5.7

To forcefully throw up food and drink from your stomach

is more prolonged and repeated usually linked to illness or excess drinking
to puke up
vsto puke my guts out
  • Informal
8 8.2

To bring food back out of your mouth because you feel sick

is more violent and repeated usually from illness or excess drinking
to chuck
vsto puke my guts out
  • UK
7 9.6

To be sick and bring food up from your stomach

is stronger and ongoing especially when caused by illness or drinking
to blow chunks
vsto puke my guts out
  • NSFW
6 9.9

Throw up forcefully when you feel very sick

is similar but emphasizes repeated violent episodes and drinking as a cause
to regurgitate
vsto puke my guts out
5 7.7

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

is more forceful and repeated focusing on violent sickness or drinking
to ralph
vsto puke my guts out
  • Slang
4 9.5

To force food or drink out of your mouth

is more intense and repeated often from illness or excess alcohol
to upchuck
vsto puke my guts out
  • NSFW
3 8.8

To throw up food and drink from your stomach

is harsher and repeated usually due to sickness or heavy drinking
to vomit up
vsto puke my guts out
  • Informal
3 3.6

Push food or drink from the stomach out through the mouth

is more violent and repeated commonly caused by illness or excess drinking
to chunder
vsto puke my guts out
  • Australian
1 9.9

To throw up because you feel sick

is more violent and repeated often from sickness or too much alcohol
to boke
vsto puke my guts out
  • Slang
1 9.9

To throw up when you feel sick

is more violent and repeated frequently caused by sickness or heavy drinking
to puke guts out
vsto puke my guts out
  • NSFW
9.2

To throw up a lot with great force

is similar but stresses repeated, violent episodes often from illness or drinking
to disgorge
vsto puke my guts out
8.7

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

is harsher and repeated usually caused by illness or heavy drinking
to launch one's lunch
vsto puke my guts out
  • Slang
9.9

To throw up food you just ate

is more intense and repeated usually linked to heavy drinking or illness
to bow down before the porcelain god
vsto puke my guts out
  • Informal
9.9

To vomit into a toilet after drinking too much

is more violent and repeated beyond a single episode or location
to regorge
vsto puke my guts out
9.9

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

is harsher and typically repeated often following illness or excess drinking

Antonyms

to keep down
10 5.9

To stop yourself from throwing up food or drink

How Violent

to puke my guts out
  • NSFW
7 9.9
to hurl
31 3.5
to puke
  • NSFW
186 6.6
to be sick
109 1.7
to retch
9 7.2

Surface Forms

puke my guts out infinitive
puked my guts out past
puked my guts out past participle
puking my guts out present participle
pukes my guts out third person singular

Morphology

puke + mine + gut + out

The core verb 'puke' means 'to vomit', and the sequence 'my guts out' creates a vivid, hyperbolic image that clearly intensifies that action, so a learner who knows the words can infer it means severe or repeated vomiting. However, the expression is colloquial and uses a non‑literal, exaggerated image as an intensifier, so the exact nuance and register are not fully predictable without prior exposure.

Etymology

Puke my guts out uses a shocking picture: puke, meaning to vomit, and guts, meaning your insides, imagine vomiting so hard it feels like your insides are coming out, so the phrase means 'to vomit violently and repeatedly'.