"fork out" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "forks out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forking out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forked out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forked out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "fork out (third-person singular simple present forks out, present participle forking out, simple past and past participle forked out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"out\"",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The hard drive broke down, so I forked out five hundred dollars for a new one.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 January 4, Marina Hyde, “Hiding behind the loophole of a dead sex trafficker? Stay classy, Andrew”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "But in the event that Giuffre’s case against Andrew proceeds and he loses it, and a multimillion-dollar payment has to be made, you get the feeling public attitudes would change overnight if the maternal bailout ran to forking out Andy’s damages for him.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To pay out, to hand over"
      ],
      "id": "en-fork_out-en-verb-fnpHjUac",
      "links": [
        [
          "pay out",
          "pay out"
        ],
        [
          "hand over",
          "hand over"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, informal) To pay out, to hand over"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cough up"
        },
        {
          "word": "fork over"
        },
        {
          "word": "shell out"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fork out"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "forks out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forking out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forked out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "forked out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "fork out (third-person singular simple present forks out, present participle forking out, simple past and past participle forked out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"out\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The hard drive broke down, so I forked out five hundred dollars for a new one.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 January 4, Marina Hyde, “Hiding behind the loophole of a dead sex trafficker? Stay classy, Andrew”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "But in the event that Giuffre’s case against Andrew proceeds and he loses it, and a multimillion-dollar payment has to be made, you get the feeling public attitudes would change overnight if the maternal bailout ran to forking out Andy’s damages for him.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To pay out, to hand over"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pay out",
          "pay out"
        ],
        [
          "hand over",
          "hand over"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, informal) To pay out, to hand over"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "cough up"
    },
    {
      "word": "fork over"
    },
    {
      "word": "shell out"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fork out"
}