(Scotland) To retch or vomit.
: I was going to boak: I made the window and opened it but most of the sickness hit the window-sill in a heap.
(obsolete) To burp.
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Don’t be a Boak, taking the word of the same people who can’t tell you if we are in a war or not and run with their numbers in the headline
1997, Alan Warner, [http://books.google.com/books?id=ruWZweEYGCoC&q=%22to+boak%22&dq=%22to+boak%22&lr=&pgis=1 Movern Callar]:
“And of course the credulous rube who parroted this garbage—Josh Boak—doesn’t have Bluesky but certainly uses “X!””
“Being in the same room as Trump would give me the boak.”
“Don’t be a Boak, taking the word of the same people who can’t tell you if we are in a war or not and run with their numbers in the headline”
“Trump's drugmaker deals may save economy $529B over 10 years, White House says (Josh Boak/Associated Press) Main Link | memeorandum Permalink”
“WASHINGTON (AP) - White House economists estimate that President Donald Trump's deals with pharmaceutical companies to drop some of their U.S. prescription drug prices to what they charge in other countries could save $529 billion over the next 10 years. Reported by Josh Boak”