Technicolor yawn

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Technicolor yawn

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Originally Australian slang, early 1970s.

noun Technicolor yawns

slang An act of vomiting. I was down by Bondi Pier, drinkin' tubes of ice cold beer / With a bucket full of prawns upon my knee / When I swallowed the last prawn / I had a technicolor yawn and I chundered in the old Pacific Sea
Similar: barf, bait, boke, boot, chunder, honk, pavement pizza, puke, purging, ralph, sick, spew

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@misc{technicolor_yawn_2026,
  title = {Technicolor yawn},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/technicolor%20yawn},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}