technicolor yawn

Stomach contents expelled

Technicolor yawn is Australian slang for vomiting, the vivid imagery suggesting the colorful splatter of stomach contents.

The phrase plays on Technicolor, the trademark for a process that produced vibrant color films, applying it ironically to the unpleasant sight of regurgitated food and drink.

It typically describes vomiting caused by excessive alcohol consumption: He had too many beers and did a technicolor yawn in the parking lot.

Related

retch · heave · dry heaves · spew · sick · nausea · queasy · pray to the porcelain god · porcelain · toilet · drunk · hangover · stomach · bile · gag · wretch · chunks · splash

Categories
Opposites
digestive direction

technicolor yawnswallowing

Ingesting via throat muscles

eating · ingestion · consumption · appetite · chowing down

physical state

technicolor yawngood health

Absence of illness

wellness · cast-iron stomach

linguistic register

technicolor yawnemesis

Stomach contents expelled orally

vomiting · regurgitation · vomitus · throwing up · vomit

Family

technicolor, yawn, color, colors, colored, coloring, colorful, colorless, coloration

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG