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unicorn vomit (uncountable)

  1. (slang, idiomatic, humorous) Something extremely colorful, sweet, or cloying.
    • 2011, Haley Massara, "The etiquette of cake", Granite Bay Gazette (Granite Bay High School, Granite Bay, California), 8 April 2011, page A10:
      I envy how obviously homemade it is, and how the 12 pounds of sprinkles dumped on top of it make it look like a tray of unicorn vomit.
    • 2014, Tawni Waters, Beauty and the Broken, unnumbered page:
      "Well, it's awesome," I say, thinking "awesome" is a generous word for a scarf that resembles unicorn vomit.
    • 2015, Hannah Brencher, If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers, page 69:
      "Because you don't let me go deeper than that. You don't let me write anything but pretty stories that make people feel like they're tromping through unicorn vomit while holding baskets of cupcakes in their arms."
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:unicorn vomit.

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