horkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɔː(ɹ)k/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)k

動詞

hork (三人称単数 現在形 horks, 現在分詞 horking, 過去形および過去分詞形 horked)

1. (computing, 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. (slang, regional) 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 throw.

   Let's go hork pickles at people from the back row of the movie theatre.

5. (slang) To eat hastily or greedily; to gobble.

   I don't know what got into her, but she horked all those hoagies last night!

6. (slang, transitive) To move.

   Go hork the kegs from out back.

使用する際の注意点

Senses “eat quickly” and “vomit” can be ambiguous, particularly when applied to food – this is a contranym. These senses can be disambiguated by using "hork up" for "vomit" and "hork down" for "eat quickly."

同意語

• (foul up): bork
• (throw): hork
• (cough up): hawk, hock
• (gobble): gobble, scarf, scoff

アナグラム

• Kohr, Kroh, khor