# "Slash" = "Upchuck" in your lexicon? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 24, 2014, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slash-upchuck-in-your-lexicon/679610 "2014-01-24T14:16:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slash-upchuck-in-your-lexicon/679610/1 "2014-01-24T14:16:26Z")
I don’t often have occasion to refer to projectile vomit these days. Thankfully it’s been a while. But when you could paint the side of a barn with one heave, “slash” seemed more than descriptive. I’m curious: 1. have you ever used “slash” as a synonym for violent regurgitation; 2. do you have any other overly descriptive terms for it; and 3. can you contribute to the SDMB Thesaurus with other substitutes for that wonderful word? ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slash-upchuck-in-your-lexicon/679610/2 "2014-01-24T14:18:47Z")
Nope, never heard that one, Z! “Technicolor rainbow” comes to mind tho. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slash-upchuck-in-your-lexicon/679610/3 "2014-01-24T14:25:28Z")
1. No, never heard it until today. 2. and 3) Blowing chunks, tossing your cookies. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slash-upchuck-in-your-lexicon/679610/4 "2014-01-24T14:30:36Z")
I have never heard of that either. In British vulgar slang, to have a slash means to have a piss, perhaps particularly when it is done _al fresco_ and/or drunk. Could you perhaps have mistakenly taken someone talking about a slash in that sense to have been talking about vomiting? ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slash-upchuck-in-your-lexicon/679610/5 "2014-01-24T14:34:55Z")
Puts a whole new perspective on slash fiction. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slash-upchuck-in-your-lexicon/679610/6 "2014-01-24T14:37:01Z")
Never heard slash. Euphemisms for throwing up? Tossing your lunch, making a sidewalk pizza, driving the porcelain bus, dancing the porcelain tango, ralphing, performing peristaltic pyrotechnics… ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slash-upchuck-in-your-lexicon/679610/7 "2014-01-24T14:38:49Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > I have never heard of that either. In British vulgar slang, to have a slash means to have a piss, perhaps particularly when it is done _al fresco_ and/or drunk. Could you perhaps have mistakenly taken someone talking about a slash in that sense to have been talking about vomiting? I doubt it seriously, but you can never tell with stuff like that. It was quite common in my boyhood days in Alabama. As with many such terms they come and go in a short span of time. It gave way to hurl, barf, and others that I’m having trouble recalling because they didn’t last that long. But it’s like so many of those slang expression that Brits and Yanks have differing meanings for that when you hear the word, let’s say “fanny” for example, it can take on a connotation even when you realize something else is being meant by the speaker. But I must remember to use your word next time I’m writing yellow snow. ETA: I see ralph above. That was one of them! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slash-upchuck-in-your-lexicon/679610/8 "2014-01-24T14:42:42Z")
Y’all might be curious what brought on this idea. I was about to reply to the thread about “emotional reponses to movie scenes” (or whatever) and was prepared to use “slash” in my reply. Then I wondered if it would even make sense. I gather not. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slash-upchuck-in-your-lexicon/679610/9 "2014-01-24T15:02:19Z")
I hear Slash and I think guitarist, a very hot sexy guitarist who in no way shape or form could make me think of vomit. Any other usage of the word would make me think of cuts and blood, which I supposed of the cuts were deep and bloody enough could make me feel like vomiting, although I’d be more likely to faint. Maybe splash could work. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slash-upchuck-in-your-lexicon/679610/10 "2014-01-24T15:08:15Z")
'merican, here. never heard of slash other than how it’s used in fan-fic. back in the day it was, ‘technicolor yawn,’ ‘ralphing,’ ‘tossing cookies,’ and my personal fav during my misspent college days, ‘worshiping the porcelain goddess.’ ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slash-upchuck-in-your-lexicon/679610/11 "2014-01-24T15:09:21Z")
Ohhh yesss!! [Slash](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86cdL8t2g6o) has done some very interesting things with jazz too. Obsession/Confession comes to mind. Give a listen if you dont already know it! ---
**Author:** ![Osiris\_the\_1st](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9de0a6/32.png) [@Osiris\_the\_1st](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osiris_the_1st)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slash-upchuck-in-your-lexicon/679610/12 "2014-01-24T15:48:17Z")
No good. “Going for a slash” means you’re going to urinate. I’ve lived in Alabama my whole life and never heard slash used to refer to vomiting. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slash-upchuck-in-your-lexicon/679610/13 "2014-01-24T15:52:29Z")
> [@Osiris\_the\_1st](#): > > No good. “Going for a slash” means you’re going to urinate. > > I’ve lived in Alabama my whole life and never heard slash used to refer to vomiting. That’s disconcerting. I guess it means the usage was even narrower in range and probably in time as well. Thanks for the take on it. ETA: I just did a Yahoo! search on “slash vomit barf ralph” and the only hit was this thread! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slash-upchuck-in-your-lexicon/679610/14 "2014-01-24T16:23:29Z")
Heh…I remember when Roger Daltrey was doing a promo interview for the Who’s (sad) Superbowl performance. He said something along the lines of “Well, it is halftime, most of the blokes will probably be off having a slash.” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slash-upchuck-in-your-lexicon/679610/15 "2014-01-24T16:32:00Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > I have never heard of that either. In British vulgar slang, to have a slash means to have a piss, perhaps particularly when it is done _al fresco_ and/or drunk. Could you perhaps have mistakenly taken someone talking about a slash in that sense to have been talking about vomiting? This is what I think of if someone says slash in a bodily function context. I generally say throw up or puke. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slash-upchuck-in-your-lexicon/679610/16 "2014-01-24T16:44:34Z")
My only familiarity with the word “slash” describing a voluntary or involuntary bodily function is with the British sense of urinating. Never heard it refer to vomiting. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slash-upchuck-in-your-lexicon/679610/17 "2014-01-24T16:55:29Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Heh…I remember when Roger Daltrey was doing a promo interview for the Who’s (sad) Superbowl performance. He said something along the lines of “Well, it is halftime, most of the blokes will probably be off having a slash.” 😛 Yep, that sounds more like “taking a whiz” than “blowing chunks.” BB, in your neck of the woods, did y’all have any peculiar slang for barfing beyond the ones mentioned already here? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slash-upchuck-in-your-lexicon/679610/18 "2014-01-24T17:21:22Z")
One that comes to mind (previously mentioned): “Talking to God on the porcelain phone”. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slash-upchuck-in-your-lexicon/679610/19 "2014-01-24T17:53:25Z")
> [@SerafinaPekala](#): > > Ohhh yesss!! [Slash](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86cdL8t2g6o) has done some very interesting things with jazz too. Obsession/Confession comes to mind. Give a listen if you dont already know it! cool thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slash-upchuck-in-your-lexicon/679610/20 "2014-01-24T18:15:38Z")
1. Never encountered it in this context. (I grew up in Louisiana and now live in Texas, FWIW.) Depending on context, “slash” either means a type of cutting motion or a non-canon romantic pairing. 2. Aside from numerous expressions already offered in this thread, I’ve encountered and sometimes use a couple of variations on a computer-geeky euphemism: “return (input)” “Needs to review inputs.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slash-upchuck-in-your-lexicon/679610.md?page=2)