hork
To foul up; to be occupied with difficulty, tangle, or unpleasantness; to be brokenTo foul up; to be occupied with difficulty, tangle, or unpleasantness; to be broken.
Meaning
7 senses(slang)To foul up; to be occupied with difficulty, tangle, or unpleasantness; to be broken.
I downloaded the program, but something is horked and it won't load.
(regional, slang)To steal, especially petty theft or misnomer in jest.
Can I hork that code from you for my project?
(slang)To vomit, cough up.
(slang)To gulp
Don't just hork it down!
(slang)To throw.
Let's go hork pickles at people from the back row of the movie theatre.
(slang)To eat hastily or greedily; to gobble.
I don't know what got into her, but she horked all those hoagies last night!
(slang, transitive)To move.
Go hork the kegs from out back.
Origin
Onomatopoeia or imitative. For “cough up” sense, compare hawk/hock (16th century), which aOnomatopoeia or imitative. For “cough up” sense, compare hawk/hock (16th century), which are almost homophonous in non-rhotic accents. For “throw” sense, compare huck. The “foul up” sense is presumably influenced by bork (late 1990s), from broken. The “steal” sense may be related to hook, which has the same slang meaning.
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Forms
horks, horking, horked, horkedSynonyms
6 synonymsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle