Phrase Request – Phrasal Verb for Carbonated Drinks Exploding After Shaking?

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What's the phrasal verb for carbonated drinks exploding out of the can after being shaken? "Exploded out" doesn't sound right, because it doesn't sound idiomatic. I also checked pop off, but it seems to be used for physical non-liquid things like the cork of a champagne bottle.

For example:

The drink ____ out of the can after he shook the diet coke can and opened it.

Best Answer

I suggest the word spew which is defined by Lexico as

spew
VERB

1 Expel large quantities of (something) rapidly and forcibly.
buses were spewing out black clouds of exhaust

Edit: as commented, a better dictionary reference is the next item in the same definition.

1.1 Be poured or forced out in large quantities.
great screeds of paper spewed out of the computer

Your sentence could be

The drink spewed out [of the can] after he shook the diet coke can and opened it.

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