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fork out

fork out verb: to pay out, to hand over.

Verb

fork out (third-person singular simple present forks out, present participle forking out, simple past and past participle forked out)

  1. (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.
    • We must go to Athens. Will you come if I can get the aunt to fork out twenty quid?1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

Synonyms of fork out

Forms of fork out

third-person singular presentforks out
present participleforking out
past participleforked out
pastforked out

Questions about fork out

What does fork out mean?
Fork out means to pay out, to hand over.
What part of speech is fork out?
Fork out is a verb.
What is the past tense of fork out?
The past tense of fork out is forked out.

Words near fork out in the dictionary

  1. fork lightning
  2. fork lightnings
  3. fork off
  4. fork oil
  5. fork oils
  6. fork out
  7. fork over
  8. fork truck
  9. fork trucks
  10. fork-end
  11. fork-join

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