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Yorked vs Horked - What's the difference?

yorked | horked |

As verbs the difference between yorked and horked

is that yorked is (york) while horked is (hork).

yorked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (york)

  • york

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (cricket) to bowl a yorker at a batsman, especially to get a batsman out in this way.
  • horked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hork)

  • hork

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
  • To steal, especially petty theft or misnomer in jest.
  • Can I hork that code from you for my project?
  • (label) To throw.
  • Let's go hork pickles at people from the back row of the movie theatre.
  • (label) To eat hastily or greedily; to gobble.
  • I don't know what got into her, but she horked all those hoagies last night!
  • To move; specifically in an egregious fashion
  • Go hork''' the kegs from out back, and then go to the party across the street and '''hork some girls back.

    Usage notes

    Senses “eat quickly” and “vomit” can be ambiguous, particularly when applied to food – this is a contranym.

    Synonyms

    * (foul up) (l) * (throw) (l) * (cough up) (l), (l) * (gobble) (l), (l), (l) English contranyms