Bork

Quick meaning: Bork is a verb meaning (transitive, slang) To misconfigure, break, or damage, especially a computer or other complex device.

Meaning

(transitive, slang) To misconfigure, break, or damage, especially a computer or other complex device.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, slang) To become broken or damaged, especially of a computer or other complex device.
2. (Internet slang, humorous) The sound that a dog makes.
3. (Internet slang, humorous) Of a dog, to bark.
4. (Liverpool, slang) To retch or vomit.
5. (ambitransitive, US politics, often derogatory) To defeat a person's appointment or election, judicial nomination, etc., through a concerted attack on the person's character, background, and philosophy.
6. (informal) The bald notothen or bald rockcod (Pagothenia borchgrevinki), a species of cod icefish (Nototheniidae) native to the Southern Ocean.
7. (vulgar, slang) To boink; to have sex with.

Example Sentences

In other words, I am intentionally borking the headline writer, for no other reason than to make my point with greater force.

I feel strongly that he [Senator John Tower] is being borked. … The charges that have been leveled at him have all proved groundless, baseless.

[Stephen L.] Carter believes that liberals seem to think that only conservatives "bork" and likewise conservatives seem to believe that only liberals "bork," but the unhappy truth is that everybody "borks".

After an eight-year hiatus, these groups are back on the scene, ready to implement an apparent vicious strategy of Borking any judicial nominee who happens to disagree with their view of how the world should be.

Word Forms

• borks
• borking
• borked
• borken

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bolt, body, unbark, baffle, debank, break.

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