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forking out

forking out is the present participle and gerund 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 forking out

What is forking out the present participle and gerund of?
Forking out is the present participle and gerund of fork out.

Words near forking out in the dictionary

  1. forkier
  2. forkiest
  3. forkiness
  4. forking
  5. forking off
  6. forking out
  7. forking over
  8. forkings
  9. forkless
  10. forklift
  11. forklift operator

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forking 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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