hork

Meanings

verbhork (third-person singular simple present horks, present participle horking, simple past and past participle horked)

present singular third person horks · participle present horking · participle past horked · past horked · alternative hoark

slangcomputingTo 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.
Synonyms: bork
regionalslangTo steal, especially petty theft or misnomer in jest.
Can I hork that code from you for my project?
slangTo vomit, cough up.
Synonyms: hawk, hock
slangTo gulp
Don't just hork it down!
slangTo throw.
Let's go hork pickles at people from the back row of the movie theatre.
slangTo eat hastily or greedily; to gobble.
I don't know what got into her, but she horked all those hoagies last night!
Synonyms: gobble, scarf, scoff
slangtransitiveTo move.
Go hork the kegs from out back.

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo foul up; to be occupied with difficulty, tangle, or unpleasantness; to be broken.

Similar

bork

verbTo vomit, cough up.

Similar

hawk hock

verbTo eat hastily or greedily; to gobble.

Similar

gobble scarf scoff

Also see

gobble hoark

Origin

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.

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