Word.ws English Dictionary

forked over

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

Meaning of fork over

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.

Questions about forked over

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

Words near forked over in the dictionary

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

Source and license

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

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “forked over.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/forked_over. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.