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Grammar : Verb
Spell : fawrk
Phonetic Transcription : fɔrk



Definition of fork over

Origin :
  • Old English forca "forked instrument used by torturers," a Germanic borrowing (cf. Old Norse forkr) from Latin furca "pitchfork; fork used in cooking," of uncertain origin.
  • Table forks were not generally used in England until 15c. The word is first attested in this sense in English in a will of 1463, probably from Old North French forque (Old French furche, Modern French fourche), from the Latin word. Of rivers, from 1753; of roads, from 1839.
  • As in kick in : verb contribute
  • As in shell out : verb give
  • As in cede : verb abandon, surrender
  • As in deal : verb distribute
  • As in deliver : verb transfer, carry
  • As in dish out : verb distribute
  • As in give : verb contribute, supply, transfer
Example sentences :
  • You'll just fork over five dollars to me this very night or off you go to the lock-up.
  • Extract from : « The Masked Bridal » by Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
  • That you should fork over to me the remaining five thousand.
  • Extract from : « Capitola's Peril » by Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth
  • We bring you in on emergency—and you fork over a thousand buck fine.
  • Extract from : « The Guardians » by Irving Cox
  • She looked at it, changed her fork over, and went on eating with the other hand.
  • Extract from : « Beyond » by John Galsworthy
  • Well, fork over the twenty-five then, and the deal's closed.
  • Extract from : « The Life of the Party » by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
  • Fork over that coin you lifted from me in the Elk, you light-fingered hound!
  • Extract from : « 'Firebrand' Trevison » by Charles Alden Seltzer
  • Just fork over, everybody, for the benefit of the heathens in Hungry Land.
  • Extract from : « The Putnam Hall Rebellion » by Arthur M. Winfield
  • Fork over them are dimonds—or else it will go harder with you.
  • Extract from : « The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales » by Francis A. Durivage
  • I had a picture in a dealer's shop—his place burnt down—I made him fork over.
  • Extract from : « In Friendship's Guise » by Wm. Murray Graydon
  • For this ovation the initiated prisoner had to pay, or fork over, half-a-crown—or submit to a loss of coat and waistcoat.
  • Extract from : « The Slang Dictionary » by John Camden Hotten

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