spit up

verb, noun — 2 senses

spit up

verbalso spelled spit-up

1

Especially, Of children To regurgitate or vomit.

The baby spat up her breakfast.
Don't show the dead bird to him; he'll just spit up.

1 more example

Usually baby doesn't need to be burped if (1) he consistently takes his usual amount of formula, gradually increasing his capacity as the weeks go by and (2) if he hasn't spit up when put down unburped after most feedings.1968, Robert Webster Watson, Why Not Have Your Second Baby First?, page 46:

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spit-up

noun

1

Informal Digestive fluids and other stomach contents which are regurgitated or vomited, especially by a child.

Dana Lowey Luttway anointed her son Daniel Henri "the king of spit-up" but was inspired by his daily rejections to create her first invention: the ParentSmock, a cotton bib made for parents.2000 March 20, Sharon Cotliar, “Mothers of Invention”, in Time:

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