Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fork out

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.03 in modern English

Syllables: fork out
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To pay out, to hand over.

British usage; Informal

Example Sentences

"The hard drive broke down, so I forked out five hundred dollars for a new one."
"We must go to Athens. Will you come if I can get the aunt to fork out twenty quid?"
""Come, George, fork out. I'm sorry if you're rocky too but it's an absolute that it's no good going back without it.""
"But in the event that Giuffre’s case against Andrew proceeds and he loses it, and a multimillion-dollar payment has to be made, you get the feeling public attitudes would change overnight if the maternal bailout ran to forking out Andy’s damages for him."

Usage

British usage
Informal

Inflected Forms

forks out (present, singular) forking out (participle, present) forked out (participle, past) forked out (past)

Synonyms

cough up fork over shell out hand over fork up turn in deliver render

Questions

What does fork out mean?: To pay out, to hand over.

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