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fork over

fork over verb: to turn over (soil, hay, etc.) with a gardening fork.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To turn over (soil, hay, etc.) with a gardening fork.
    • I forked over half the allotment this morning.
  2. (US, idiomatic, transitive) To pay, give up or hand over a large amount of money.
    • Hundreds of spectators forked over the 70 bucks for tickets.
    • Valentine’s Day means different things for different people. For Homer, it means forking over a hundred dollars for a dusty box of chocolates at the Kwik-E-Mart after characteristically forgetting the holiday yet again. For Ned, it’s another opportunity to prove his love for his wife. Most germane...2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in A.V. Club, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2013

fork over meaning in Bengali

fork over in Bengali

ত্যাগ করা, তুলে দেওয়া

Forms of fork over

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

Questions about fork over

What does fork over mean?
Fork over means to turn over (soil, hay, etc.) with a gardening fork.
What is fork over in Bengali?
Fork over in Bengali is ত্যাগ করা, তুলে দেওয়া. See Fork over meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is fork over?
Fork over is a verb.
What is the past tense of fork over?
The past tense of fork over is forked over.

Words near fork over in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fork over (page history and authors); fork over (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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