barf bag
noun
informal
: a waterproof bag into which a person (such as an airplane passenger) who is experiencing nausea can vomit
Nonetheless, he has his face in the barf bag on this ridiculously cramped and bumpy twin-propeller flight from Palm Springs to Los Angeles …—
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Birkin went on to explain her vision, sketching it out on a barf bag.
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Charmaine Patterson,
People.com,
31 Dec. 2024
Aquarius passed out barf bags to those paying to see Doctor Butcher, Medical Deviate (1983), which was a re-edited version of Marino Girolami’s Zombie Holocaust (1980).
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Mike Barnes,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Feb. 2024
Behind me, two unfortunate researchers were hunched, barf bags in hand, stricken by space adjustment syndrome.
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Nicola Twilley,
WIRED,
11 Feb. 2020
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Charmaine Patterson,
People.com,
31 Dec. 2024
Aquarius passed out barf bags to those paying to see Doctor Butcher, Medical Deviate (1983), which was a re-edited version of Marino Girolami’s Zombie Holocaust (1980).
—
Mike Barnes,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Feb. 2024
Behind me, two unfortunate researchers were hunched, barf bags in hand, stricken by space adjustment syndrome.
—
Nicola Twilley,
WIRED,
11 Feb. 2020
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“Barf bag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barf%20bag. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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