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Title: Phrasal verb for carbonated drinks exploding out of the can after being shaken?
Question: 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.

Answers:
sents: text: Possibly one of "spray", "fizz", "surge", "foam", depending on how large/strong the flow of liquid, along with a preposition like "out", "from", or "over", depending on how you describe the movement of the liquid.
text: Why does a shaken soda fizz more than an unshaken one?
text: Does Tapping a Soda Can Prevent it from Foaming Over? when the shaken can is opened, there will be a surge of cola and foam out of the opening.
text: "Explode" is also used:
text: After shaking a soda bottle/can, what makes the soda explode out when you open it?
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/42184/Andrew
score: 29
sents: text: I suggest the word spew which is defined by Lexico as spew VERB 1 Expel large quantities of (something) rapidly and forcibly.
text: buses were spewing out black clouds of exhaust Edit: as commented, a better dictionary reference is the next item in the same definition.
text: 1.1 Be poured or forced out in large quantities.
text: great screeds of paper spewed out of the computer
text: Your sentence could be The drink spewed out [of the can] after he shook the diet coke can and opened it.
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/56820/Weather Vane
score: 21
sents: text: Another possibility is erupt : From Merriam-Webster : 1a (1) : to burst from limits or restraint (2) of a tooth : to emerge through the gum b : to force out or release suddenly and often violently something (such as lava or steam) that is pent up c : to become active or violent especially suddenly : break forth war could erupt at any moment the audience erupted in applause 2 : to break out with or as if with a skin eruption erupt is most often used to describe volcanic eruptions, which I think is fitting because the sudden release of built-up pressure within a soda can is analogous to the sudden release of pressure during a volcanic eruption
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/474/mowwwalker
score: 8
sents: text: I prefer the term burst.
text: The drink burst out of the can after he shook the diet coke can and opened it.
text: Burst - Merriam-Webster : to break open, apart, or into pieces usually from impact or from pressure from within
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/94603/Voldune
score: 6
sents: text: I believe the correct word is gush or gush out def: to flow or send out quickly and in large amounts: Oil gushed (out) from the hole in the tanker.
text: Blood was gushing from his nose.
text: Her arm gushed blood where the knife had gone in.
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/98410/Benoît Carlier
score: 1
sents: text: To me, the most natural way to say this would be
text: The drink spurted out of the can.
text: A close second would be
text: The drink sprayed from the can.
text: However, The drink exploded from the can would also be perfectly fine – and would in fact be the best choice if he shook the can really hard
text: and you want to emphasize that the drink came out very quickly and forcefully.
text: These aren't phrasal verbs, of course – but then, neither is "explode out of."
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/95506/Nanigashi
score: 1

Summary of the answers:
Possibly one of "spray", "fizz", "surge", "foam", depending on how large/strong the flow of liquid, along with a preposition like "out", "from", or "over", depending on how you describe the movement of the liquid.   I believe the correct word is  gush  or  gush out  def: to flow or send out quickly and in large amounts:  Oil gushed (out) from the hole in the tanker. The drink spurted out of the can.   
The possibilities are as follows: "spray", "surge", "foam", "sprayed from", "spewed out", "burst", "gush out" or "spurted out".