toss one's cookies

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toss one's cookies (third-person singular simple present tosses one's cookies, present participle tossing one's cookies, simple past and past participle tossed one's cookies)

1. (slang) To vomit.

   Synonyms: lose one's cookies; see also Thesaurus:regurgitate

   • 1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 106:

     The cab I had was a real old one that smelled like someone’d just tossed his cookies in it. I always get those vomity kind of cabs if I go anywhere late at night.