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forking over

forking over is the present participle and gerund 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 forking over

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

Words near forking over in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forking 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.

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