vomit draft
n.— «In one of countless references to himself, he describes how he wrote a 714-page “vomit draft” of the book in the last three months of last year. Even at half that length in its final form, the book is a trifle emetic.» —“Books of The Times; A Man’s Fight for the Rain Forest” by Roger Cohen New York TImes Aug. 14, 1990. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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