park a custard/tiger

park a custard/tiger
vb
British
to vomit. The chosen words are intended to suggest consistency or col-our. The first version was said by Eric Partridge to be in use in the Royal Navy in the 1930s.
► 'People ... were actually trying to park a custard after eating something they had only identified after swallowing and didn t want to digest.' (Love it or Shove it, Julie Burchill, 1985)

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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