in. to vomit. : I thought I would puke when I smelled it.
n. vomit. : Tod put a big hunk of fake plastic puke on the teacher's desk.
n. a totally disgusting and obnoxious person. (Rude and derogatory.) : What an ugly puke. Make him leave! Make him handsome!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History
puke (v.)
1600, probably of imitative origin (cf. Ger. spucken "to spit," L. spuere); first recorded in the "Seven Ages of Man" speech in Shakespeare's "As You Like It." The noun meaning "material thrown up in vomiting" is from 1961.
[pyook] 
verb, puked, puk⋅ing. noun 
