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Verb (1)

bork (third-person singular simple present borks, present participle borking, simple past and past participle borked)

1. (US, ambitransitive, derogatory, often) To defeat a person's appointment or election, judicial nomination, etc., through a concerted attack on the person's character, background, and philosophy.
   • In light of the current furor over trying to appoint a new Supreme Court justice, I would like to submit a new verb in the English language. Three forms would be "to bork," "borking," and "borked." This would describe the act of partisan political character assassination.[1987 December 10, Kenneth H. Taylor, “[Voice of the People:] New verb”, in The San Bernardino County Sun, page 11, columns 3–4

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bork (third-person singular simple present borks, present participle borking, simple past borked, past participle borked or borken)

1. (slang, transitive) To misconfigure, break, or damage, especially a computer or other complex device.
   • The first time I tried the test machine that I got, I borked the configuration pretty badly (I.e., I inverted the interfaces among other things).2001–2006, Oskar Andreasson, “Commercial Products Based on Linux, iptables and netfilter”, in Iptables Tutorial 1.2.2, [s.l.]: Oskar Andreasson, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2017, page 327
2. (intransitive, slang) To become broken or damaged, especially of a computer or other complex device.
   • Sometimes Windows system files get messed up (the technical term is "borked"). In those cases, Microsoft has a program called Refresh that scans and fixes all the system files, without changing your settings, removing any installed programs, or blasting your data.2014, Woody Leonhard, “Maintaining Your System”, in Windows 8.1 All-in-One for Dummies (For Dummies), Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN

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bork (third-person singular simple present borks, present participle borking, simple past and past participle borked)

1. (Internet, humorous) Of a dog, to bark.
   • Dogs become “doggo”, “floofs” and “puppers” and they “bork” rather than bark.2016 September 6, Elena Cresci, “Cats v dogs: which animal owns the internet?”, in The Guardian

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bork (third-person singular simple present borks, present participle borking, simple past and past participle borked)

1. (slang, vulgar) To boink; to have sex with.
   • It was Oscar Wilde who remarked on the phenomenon of Life imitating Art . What with the tabloid Press, and Princess Di borking her riding instructor in a high-life, contemporary update of Lady Chatterley's Lover, we may soon not need fiction […]1994, The Book Review, volumes 18-19, page 34

Verb (5)

bork (third-person singular simple present borks, present participle borking, simple past and past participle borked)

1. (slang, Liverpool) To retch or vomit.
   • He tweeted: “Barf!! @BurgerKingUK thanks for [sic] Hygeine standards. How many hairs did I eat b4 realising?? Borked!!!”2016 January 8, Christina Criddle, quoting Si Foster, “Actor finds stomach-churning greasy black hair in his Burger King”, in Liverpool Echo

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