"sarpork" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /sapɒʔ/ [Singapore] Forms: sarporks [present, singular, third-person], sarporking [participle, present], sarporked [participle, past], sarporked [past]
Etymology: Respelling of English support to indicate Singlish pronunciation. Compare Cantonese 十卜 (sap6 pok1). Etymology templates: {{m|en|support}} support, {{cog|yue|十卜|tr=sap6 pok1}} Cantonese 十卜 (sap6 pok1) Head templates: {{en-verb}} sarpork (third-person singular simple present sarporks, present participle sarporking, simple past and past participle sarporked)
  1. (transitive, Singapore, informal) To provide encouragement or to stand by someone or something. Tags: Singapore, informal, transitive
    Sense id: en-sarpork-en-verb-Or5UdgUS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Singapore English, Singlish

Inflected forms

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        {
          "ref": "2007 14 October, Denny Koh, “I ish Sarpork!!”, in Honey-den (blog), Singapore, retrieved 2016-03-30",
          "text": "As long as she is happy, I will support her or should I say SARPORK!!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 20 January, TehJarVu, “Mouth & Foot Painting Artists' Greeting Cards”, in Sgforums (forum), retrieved 2016-03-25",
          "text": "They quite poor ting what. If can sarpork, sarpork lor…If can give, give.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 21 April, TheMasquerade, “Best ramen in Singapore”, in Hardwarezone Forum (forum), retrieved 2016-03-26",
          "text": "Dont sarpork fake ramen shop in sg like ramen-ten, ramenplay, ken noodle house, also ippudo, ajisen, tampopo are still ok but getting more and more china-fied.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 25 November, Eyke, “Pls sarpork Singapore Children's Society Fundraising!”, in My car forum (forum), retrieved 2016-03-23",
          "text": "Pls sarpork Singapore Children's Society Fundraising!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 22 October, Koh Jing De, Twitter (Twitter), retrieved 2016-03-26",
          "text": "Only one day left. Can one la! I shall mentally sarpork you! Hehe!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 3 June, Martino Tan, “Check out some of the names who contributed to CPF blogger’s $72k crowdfunded legal fees”, in Mothership.SG (online), retrieved 2016-03-27",
          "text": "Someone who thinks he/she has a sense of humour. Yes, we sarpork you too.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 14 July, Joanne Ng, “Germany is MY Champion!!!”, in Joanne-says.com (blog), retrieved 2016-03-25",
          "text": "Even if they don't win the champion, I'll still sarpork and love them!!!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 6 June, BabuSingh, “Should we sarpork LTK given that he twisted facts about Punggol East TC account?”, in SgTalk forum (forum), retrieved 2016-03-25",
          "text": "Should we sarpork such a person and vote him into Parliament?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 9 October, Tong Cai Sheng, “All Singapore Stuff's Timeline”, in Facebook (Facebook), retrieved 2016-03-25",
          "text": "Wa chio bu alert must sarpork!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 22 March, Himeko Ong, Twitter (Twitter), retrieved 2016-03-25",
          "text": "I never watch long long time ago but my Tutee is acting in LLTA2 and his mum just asked me to go for the GALA tmr to sarpork him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "To provide encouragement or to stand by someone or something."
      ],
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        "(transitive, Singapore, informal) To provide encouragement or to stand by someone or something."
      ],
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        },
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          "ref": "2009 20 January, TehJarVu, “Mouth & Foot Painting Artists' Greeting Cards”, in Sgforums (forum), retrieved 2016-03-25",
          "text": "They quite poor ting what. If can sarpork, sarpork lor…If can give, give.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 21 April, TheMasquerade, “Best ramen in Singapore”, in Hardwarezone Forum (forum), retrieved 2016-03-26",
          "text": "Dont sarpork fake ramen shop in sg like ramen-ten, ramenplay, ken noodle house, also ippudo, ajisen, tampopo are still ok but getting more and more china-fied.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 25 November, Eyke, “Pls sarpork Singapore Children's Society Fundraising!”, in My car forum (forum), retrieved 2016-03-23",
          "text": "Pls sarpork Singapore Children's Society Fundraising!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 22 October, Koh Jing De, Twitter (Twitter), retrieved 2016-03-26",
          "text": "Only one day left. Can one la! I shall mentally sarpork you! Hehe!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 3 June, Martino Tan, “Check out some of the names who contributed to CPF blogger’s $72k crowdfunded legal fees”, in Mothership.SG (online), retrieved 2016-03-27",
          "text": "Someone who thinks he/she has a sense of humour. Yes, we sarpork you too.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 14 July, Joanne Ng, “Germany is MY Champion!!!”, in Joanne-says.com (blog), retrieved 2016-03-25",
          "text": "Even if they don't win the champion, I'll still sarpork and love them!!!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 6 June, BabuSingh, “Should we sarpork LTK given that he twisted facts about Punggol East TC account?”, in SgTalk forum (forum), retrieved 2016-03-25",
          "text": "Should we sarpork such a person and vote him into Parliament?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 9 October, Tong Cai Sheng, “All Singapore Stuff's Timeline”, in Facebook (Facebook), retrieved 2016-03-25",
          "text": "Wa chio bu alert must sarpork!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 22 March, Himeko Ong, Twitter (Twitter), retrieved 2016-03-25",
          "text": "I never watch long long time ago but my Tutee is acting in LLTA2 and his mum just asked me to go for the GALA tmr to sarpork him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "To provide encouragement or to stand by someone or something."
      ],
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        "(transitive, Singapore, informal) To provide encouragement or to stand by someone or something."
      ],
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        "Singapore",
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        "transitive"
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