hork

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hork

/ˈhɔː(ɹ)k/

Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)k

Where it comes from

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.

verb horks · horking · horked · hoark

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

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@misc{hork_2026,
  title = {hork},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hork},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}