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vom

/vɒm/

vom noun: vomit.

Noun (1)

vom (usually uncountable, plural voms)

  1. (informal, usually) Vomit.
    • “Okay, boss. Boss. You're short-circuiting. We wrote great jokes. Stay the course.” “Absolutely. Yeah, you're right. Um... yeah. I'm gonna make a pit stop at the bathroom for a quick vom. And then, yeah, I'll be right back.” “That's my girl!”2025 January 23, Sam Shanker, “Baby Kangaroos and Chickens” (9:39 from the start), in Animal Control, season 3, episode 4, spoken by Emily Price (Vella Lovell)

Verb

vom (third-person singular simple present voms, present participle vomming, simple past and past participle vommed)

  1. (informal) To vomit.
    • Bogle the diplomat tried to hide the sound of his gagging as he vommed the night away.1998, Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle, page 185
    • Then the waft of puke and stale bourbon reaches my nostrils and I get that shorp^([sic]) taste in my mouth that you get when you know you're going to vom.2010, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Rhino What You Did Last Summer

Interjection

vom

  1. (informal) An exclamation of disgust.
    • Someone brings their cute kid on stage with them, sings with it. Boo, hiss, yuck, vom; cute kids belong at home and in soft-play centres, they have no place on stages.2016 January 9, Sam Wollaston, “The Voice review – nonsense with laughs”, in The Guardian
    • CHRISSY: Gonna show you how to remove soft tissue from the hide.
      LAURA: Ugh, vom.2022, Miles Woods, “Popularity: Origin of Evil”, in Little Demon, season 1, episode 4

Noun (2) capitalized: VOM

VOM (plural VOMs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of voltohmmeter.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of volt-ohm-milliammeter.

Forms of vom

Noun
pluralvoms
pluralVOMs
Verb
third-person singular presentvoms
present participlevomming
past participlevommed
pastvommed

Origin of vom

Clipping of vomit.

Words formed from vom

Questions about vom

What does vom mean?
Vom means vomit.
What part of speech is vom?
Vom can be a noun, a verb or an interjection.
How do you pronounce vom?
Vom is pronounced /vɒm/.
What is the plural of vom?
The plural of vom is voms.

Words near vom in the dictionary

  1. Volz
  2. Volzhskiy
  3. Volzhsky
  4. volzing
  5. volæmia
  6. vom
  7. vombatid
  8. vombatids
  9. vombatiform
  10. vombatiforms
  11. vombatoid

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