fork out

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fork out

verb forks out · forking out · forked out

UK, ambitransitive, informal To pay out, to hand over. The hard drive broke down, so I forked out five hundred dollars for a new one.
Similar: cough up, fork over, shell out

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@misc{fork_out_2026,
  title = {fork out},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fork%20out},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}