kevork

present singular third person kevorks · participle present kevorking · participle past kevorked · past kevorked

1. intransitiveslangTo commit suicide.

   Believe me, to escape it, I'd've gladly kevorked.

   1995, Jennifer Hershey, Full Spectrum 5, volume 5, page 22

   2 more examples

   A boy and a girl kevorked in her garage using his dad's car exhaust.

   2003, Janis Ian, Michael D. Resnick, Stars: original stories based on the songs of Janis Ian, page 12

   […]divorce and abort more, cremate and kevork more.

   2004, Generations: The Journal of the Western Gerontological Society

2. slangtransitiveTo terminate.

   Before she was kevorked, yeah.

   2006, Gary L Albrecht, Sharon L. Snyder, Jerome Bickenbach, Encyclopedia of Disability, volume 1, page 20

   3 more examples

   Top Three Reasons for the Fat Little Devils to Be Out Late: Hormones rampant. Waiting up for Dave. Trying to get Kevorked by a speeding car.

   1994, Car and Driver, volume 39, page 70

   When Lorraine wouldn't stop making her inspirational postings, Dr. Goldberg apparently "kevorked" her — another useful on-lineism, which I had picked up on ECHO, meaning "terminated."

   1998, John Seabrook, Deeper: Adventures on the Net, page 226

   Each week someone in the group would ask, "So, who is the next among us to be Kevorked?" Or, in response to the all-too-familiar sob story of a new member, one of the veterans would muse, "Uh-oh, sounds like he needs to be Kevorked .

   2001, Ruth Luban, Are You a Corporate Refugee?

plural kevorks

1. slangA suicide or a homicide that has been made to look like a suicide.

   She learned that I was using her to track the involuntary kevorks.

   2006, Jonathan Strahan, Modern Greats of Science Fiction: Nine Novellas of Distinction

   1 more example

   "...There's all kinds of kervorks. Water. Air. Parking.” “Parking?” “When you start the engine of the car and close the garage door. That's a parking kervork.”

   2013, Craig Nova, All the Dead Yale Men, page 65