Dictionary

hork en · VERB

Pronunciation

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• /ˈhɔː(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.

Meanings

1. (slang) To 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.
2. (regional, slang) To steal, especially petty theft or misnomer in jest.
   • Can I hork that code from you for my project?
3. (slang) To vomit, cough up.
4. (slang) To gulp
   • Don't just hork it down!
5. (slang) To throw.
   • Let's go hork pickles at people from the back row of the movie theatre.
6. (slang) To eat hastily or greedily; to gobble.
   • I don't know what got into her, but she horked all those hoagies last night!
7. (slang, transitive) To move.
   • Go hork the kegs from out back.

Forms

Synonyms

scoff (gobble) · bork (foul up) · gobble (gobble) · hock (cough up) · hawk (cough up) · scarf (gobble)