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kevork

kevork verb: to commit suicide.

Verb

kevork (third-person singular simple present kevorks, present participle kevorking, simple past and past participle kevorked)

  1. (intransitive, slang) To commit suicide.
    • Believe me, to escape it, I'd've gladly kevorked.1995, Jennifer Hershey, Full Spectrum 5, volume 5, page 22
    • A boy and a girl kevorked in her garage using his dad's car exhaust.2003, Janis Ian, Michael D. Resnick, Stars: original stories based on the songs of Janis Ian, page 12
  2. (slang, transitive) To terminate.
    • Top Three Reasons for the Fat Little Devils to Be Out Late: Hormones rampant. Waiting up for Dave. Trying to get Kevorked by a speeding car.1994, Car and Driver, volume 39, page 70
    • When Lorraine wouldn't stop making her inspirational postings, Dr. Goldberg apparently "kevorked" her — another useful on-lineism, which I had picked up on ECHO, meaning "terminated."1998, John Seabrook, Deeper: Adventures on the Net, page 226

Noun

kevork (plural kevorks)

  1. (slang) A suicide or a homicide that has been made to look like a suicide.
    • She learned that I was using her to track the involuntary kevorks.2006, Jonathan Strahan, Modern Greats of Science Fiction: Nine Novellas of Distinction
    • "...There's all kinds of kervorks. Water. Air. Parking.” “Parking?” “When you start the engine of the car and close the garage door. That's a parking kervork.”2013, Craig Nova, All the Dead Yale Men, page 65

Forms of kevork

Verb
third-person singular presentkevorks
present participlekevorking
past participlekevorked
pastkevorked
Noun
pluralkevorks

Origin of kevork

Clipping of Kevorkian, named after American euthanasia proponent Jack Kevorkian (1928–2011).

Questions about kevork

What does kevork mean?
Kevork means to commit suicide.
What part of speech is kevork?
Kevork can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of kevork?
The past tense of kevork is kevorked.

Words near kevork in the dictionary

  1. kevlar
  2. Kevlared
  3. kevlars
  4. kevod hamet
  5. Kevon
  6. kevork
  7. kevorked
  8. Kevorkian
  9. Kevorkianesque
  10. kevorking
  11. kevorks

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