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Technicolor yawn

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English

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Etymology

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Originally Australian slang, early 1970s.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Technicolor yawn (plural Technicolor yawns)

  1. (slang) An act of vomiting.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vomit
    • c. 1970s, “Bondi Pier”, Barry Humphries (lyrics), performed by Grateful Dead:
      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

References

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  1. ^ Eric Partridge (2005) “technicolour yawn”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1940.
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