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Verb: upchuck  'úp'chúk
Usage: N. Amer, informal (elsewhere: chuck up)
  1. Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
    "After drinking too much, the students upchucked";
    - vomit, vomit up, purge, sick, cat [informal], be sick, disgorge, regorge [archaic], retch, barf [informal], spew [informal], spue [archaic], chuck [informal], honk [Brit, informal], regurgitate, throw up, vom [informal], keck [informal], hurl [informal], chuck up [Brit, informal], chunder [Brit, informal], boke [UK, dialect], boak [UK, dialect]

Derived forms: upchucks, upchucking, upchucked

Type of: egest, eliminate, excrete, pass

Encyclopedia: Upchuck