to ralph
- verb
- /rælf/
- Slang
- I think I'm gonna ralph.
- gonna ralph
- just ralphed
Examples
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Someone ralphed all over the living room.
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Hey, hey, don't ralph on that doob.
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I wish like hell I could keep you, ralph.
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But I thought I was gonna ralph.
Fiction book (1996) -
- I think I'm gonna ralph.
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See you tomorrow, ralph.
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But I am on the cusp of ralphing 65% of the day.
Blog text (5) -
I feel like ralphing.
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-Sorry I ralphed, Pam.
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After eating that spoiled food, I felt like I was going to ralph any minute.
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 bring food or drink up from the stomach through the mouth
To force food or liquid out of the stomach through the mouth
To make a strong, uncontrolled effort to vomit, sometimes bringing up food from your stomach
To throw up what is in the stomach
To forcefully throw up food and drink from your stomach
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 bring food or liquid from the stomach back into the mouth
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 push food or drink out of the mouth because you are sick
To bring food from the stomach up through the mouth, often to feed young or when sick
To throw up when you feel sick
To throw up food you just ate
To bring food or liquid back into the mouth from the stomach without strong vomiting
To throw up a lot with great force
Idioms
How Forceful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ralph as a verb likely comes from the same idea — either the name Ralph or the sound of being sick, which makes it easy to picture. So to ralph means 'to vomit' or 'to throw up'.