Definitions
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- verb slang To
foul up; to be broken. - verb slang, regional To
steal . - verb slang To
throw . - verb slang To
snort from thesinuses . (Similar to hocking.) - verb slang To
vomit . - verb slang To
gobble . - verb slang, transitive To
move ; specifically in an egregious fashion
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Examples
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So 5: 30 in the morning and you are laying there listening to the animals and then hear this loud 'hork' - don't even know what you call it - well, anyway, there is no hope in hell that you are going to fall asleep after 5: 30am!
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Of course, "my carpet does not show cat hork" is not necessarily a strong advertizing point. (
mrissa: "What makes a man turn neutral?" mrissa 2010
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The stark, gripping "Shadows of a Hot Summer" ("St í ny hork é ho l é ta," 1977), which has been compared to Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs" (1971), follows a gentle Moravian farmer whose family is threatened when his farm is occupied by Ukrainian nationalists in the aftermath of World War II.
Reality Czech Kristin M. Jones 2011
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We got to the big cats by early afternoon, and the Siberian tiger was making "sick cat" moans (or perhaps roars, but they really sounded a lot like what my cats do right before they hork up a hairball.)
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2010
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I just had to buy a new twin mattress for a certain someone whom I live with who cannot seem to wake up enough to hork.
Tricks are TrickyThings ewe are here 2008
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Of course, if you've managed to hork up the system with malware, you wouldn't want to save your settings when you shutdown -- to be fair, you probably wouldn't even want to do a normal shutdown, just a power off/on cycle, which then restores your OS to a nice, fresh, non-horked-up state in a matter of about a minute.
July 8th, 2008 danhoyt 2008
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The stunned lemur is waiting on “mama” to hork up that damn tooth/hairball, after time traveling back to 1972 for that sofa.
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My dog would probably grab it, fling it around a few times and eat it, then hork it up casually, of course.
Regretsy – Rugrat 2010
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Yep… nothing expresses the feelings of my heart more than a fat, contact wearing cougar about to hork up a fur ball in space.
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The Republicans, along with the Senate majority leader, are suggesting that rather than being incarcerated in state of the art maximum security facilities -- facilities financed via the multi-billion dollar U.S. prison-industrial-complex mandated by lawmakers -- terrorists will simply be turned loose on American soil for some crazy reason, and will subsequently hork a nuclear missile and proceed to crash it into your house.
whichbe commented on the word hork
(slang) To gulp down hurriedly; to "snarf". (From WordCraft)
May 21, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the word hork
I've also heard this used to describe the same action in the opposite direction, as in "my cat just horked up another hairball".
May 21, 2008
dontcry commented on the word hork
I'm totally going to hork down my pizza tonight. I just hope I don't hork it back up again...
May 23, 2008
she commented on the word hork
Or trichobezoar. 'Horking the trichobezoars again!'
July 11, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word hork
How is this other than hawk misspelt?
July 24, 2008
therainsaidstop commented on the word hork
it sounds like "horking a loogie"
July 24, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word hork
Yes, it's onomatopoetic. "Hawk" is not.
July 24, 2008
dontcry commented on the word hork
Also, like "aloha" and "ciao," hork means hello and goodbye! It's such a perfect word!
July 24, 2008
yarb commented on the word hork
*horks at dontcry*
July 24, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word hork
I saw hork in print (well, online...) in this phrase:
...a fake conservative who raised taxes and horked up earmark millions every chance she got...
Which, if you read it with the most commonly-used Wordie definition (hork up rather than hork down), sounds pretty weird. Until you realize you can also hork down. Which I almost forgot.
(Seen in this Rolling Stone article.)
October 22, 2008
frogapplause commented on the word hork
A hork sighting!
There must be more, c_b.
We must find them.
All of them.
October 22, 2008
four_degrees commented on the word hork
it means to barf, throw up, vomit. Often used to lighten the subject of vomiting.
"my cat horked up a hairball the size of a rat"
"hork" helps make that sentance funny!
June 9, 2009
brendatata commented on the word hork
My daughter used it in an e-mail to me. She has a BA in English so I was a little surprised to find her using it. From the context of the e-mail she used hork in place of steal. "You know that book I horked."
September 25, 2009
jwjarvis commented on the word hork
"somebody horked our clothes!" Strange Brew
September 30, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word hork
See comment on hwæt.
November 2, 2010
blafferty commented on the word hork
This came up in the examples section today:
Of course, "my carpet does not show cat hork" is not necessarily a strong advertizing point. (
— mrissa: 'What makes a man turn neutral?'
May 15, 2011
brian_armstrong commented on the word hork
To Hork something, like a system or a machine, is to cause it to become non-functioning, when it was once working fine. But it has a slightly finer meaning than that. "He horked the computer" means that not only is the machine not working, but it is in this state precisely because the idiot thought he knew what he was doing when he messed with it. Hence the association with horking up a hairball. A horked system invokes the same replusion as a hairball, and also means that someone else now has to clean up the mess. (See PhD.)
February 1, 2012
yarb commented on the word hork
Interesting, brian. What you say about hork, I would say defines bork.
February 1, 2012
dontcry commented on the word hork
yarb - Agreed. As something of an expert on all things hork... *ahem* computer breakage is bork.
*returns to porch swing to enjoy unusually balmy weather*
February 2, 2012
dontcry commented on the word hork
As we all know -- I'm not a computer...um... person. I wanted to add a new word to one of my lists and I can't even get to my own page! I don't see a way to my own page -- with my own lists. Am I gone? That would be a shame as I made up an awesome word today and I wanted to share it with my wordies... *wah*
*swings frantically on porch*
*is in danger of falling on delicate hydrangeas*
*SOMEbody will have to pay for that*
*it's porch law*
*my hands are tied*
March 12, 2012
blafferty commented on the word hork
I found you, and your lists, dontcry. But I didn't realize profiles were gone except for our wordie tracks - that was a shocking development.
March 12, 2012
yarb commented on the word hork
hork
October 2, 2019