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3 definitions found From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: barf v : eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much the students vomited" [syn: {vomit}, {vomit up}, {cast}, {sick}, {cat}, {regurgitate}, {be sick}, {disgorge}, {regorge}, {retch}, {puke}, {spew}, {spue}, {chuck}, {upchuck}, {honk}, {throw up}] [ant: {keep down}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: barf /barf/ n.,v. [common; from mainstream slang meaning `vomit'] 1. interj. Term of disgust. This is the closest hackish equivalent of the Valspeak "gag me with a spoon". (Like, euwww!) See {bletch}. 2. vi 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. vi 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}. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: 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)
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