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pukes

verb

present tense third-person singular of puke

as in vomits

to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth the drunken reveler staggered out the door and promptly puked in the bushes

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vomits

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The climax of Lukas Moodysson’s A Hole in My Heart (2004), where Geko vomits into Tess’s open mouth?

— Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Back at the Apollyon, Nas vomits the same black, viscous substance again.

— Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2026

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