"hork" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˈhɔː(ɹ)k/ Audio: En-au-hork.ogg Forms: horks [present, singular, third-person], horking [participle, present], horked [participle, past], horked [past]
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k Etymology: Onomatopoeia 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. Head templates: {{en-verb}} hork (third-person singular simple present horks, present participle horking, simple past and past participle horked)
  1. (computing, slang) To foul up; to be occupied with difficulty, tangle, or unpleasantness; to be broken. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Computing Synonyms (foul up): bork
    Sense id: en-hork-en-verb-p0m0ddJu Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'foul up': 88 1 9 0 1 0
  2. (slang, regional) To steal, especially petty theft or misnomer in jest. Tags: regional, slang
    Sense id: en-hork-en-verb-P9H7vMrk Categories (other): Regional English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 47 4 2 24 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 17 45 8 4 22 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 15 51 5 3 24 3
  3. (slang) To vomit, cough up. Tags: slang Synonyms (cough up): hawk, hock
    Sense id: en-hork-en-verb-2G6s37~f Disambiguation of 'cough up': 7 1 91 0 1 0
  4. (slang) To throw. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-hork-en-verb-WBukiO2L
  5. (slang) To eat hastily or greedily; to gobble. Tags: slang Synonyms (gobble): gobble, scarf, scoff
    Sense id: en-hork-en-verb-YktcxQfA Disambiguation of 'gobble': 7 3 6 0 85 0
  6. (slang, transitive) To move. Tags: slang, transitive
    Sense id: en-hork-en-verb-NcQWK~bq
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (topical): Food and drink
Disambiguation of Food and drink: 0 0 0 0 0 0

Inflected forms

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