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forked out

forked out is the simple past and past participle of fork out.

Meaning of fork out

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.

Questions about forked out

What is forked out the simple past and past participle of?
Forked out is the simple past and past participle of fork out.

Words near forked out in the dictionary

  1. forkbombs
  2. forked
  3. forked lightning
  4. forked lightnings
  5. forked off
  6. forked out
  7. forked over
  8. forked riceflower
  9. forked riceflowers
  10. Forked River
  11. forked sundew

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forked out (page history and authors); fork out (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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