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puke
noun- vomit US, 1961
- Kate spews out some puke and | close my eyes and waits. — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, p. 5, 1952
- a despised person US
In the mid-C19, the term was applied with some degree of scorn to residents of the state of Missouri; it later gained a broader sense. In Rogue Warrior, Richard Marcinko gives a virtual litany of pukes–Academy puke, admin puke, fleet puke, jet puke, puke ensign, staff puke and Team-puke. - — American Speech, p. 282, December 1966: “More carnie talk from the West Coast”
- The roof is is crowded with kids, some with binoculars. One is yelling, “Scorecard! Scorecard! Can’t tell the cops from the pukes without a scorecard.” — James Simon Kunen, The Strawberry Statement, p. 49, 1968
- Anyway, there were five of us in the park that night and for fifteen minutes we all battle that puke. — Joseph Wambaugh, The New Centurions, pp. 218–19, 1970
- [H]e wasn’t able to picture the great Viceroy Wilson–bad hands, bankrupt and all–rubbing elbow with a bunch of pukes at Pauly’s. — Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, p. 48, 1986
- But until that day you are pukes. You’re the lowest form of life on Earth. — Full Metal Jacket, 1987
- Me? I don’t know, I’m only a staff puke. — Gerry Carroll, North S*A*R, p. 237, 1991
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