Definitions For Hork
Verb
{{en-verb}} (computing, slang) To foul up; to be occupied with difficulty, tangle, or unpleasantness; to be broken. : I downloaded the program, but something is horked and it won't load. (slang, regional) To steal, especially petty theft or misnomer in jest. : Can I hork that code from you for my project? (slang) To vomit, cough up. (slang) To throw. : Let's go hork pickles at people from the back row of the movie theatre. (slang) To eat hastily or greedily; to gobble. : I don't know what got into her, but she horked all those hoagies last night! (slang, transitive) To move. : Go hork the kegs from out back.Usage notes
Senses “eat quickly” and “vomit” can be ambiguous, particularly when applied to food – this is a contranym. These senses can be disambiguated by using "hork up" for "vomit" and "hork down" for "eat quickly."Synonyms
foul up bork throw hork cough up hawk, hock gobble gobble, scarf, scoffEtymology
Onomatopoeia or imitative. For “cough up” sense, compare hawk/hock (16th century), which are almost homophonous in non-rhotic accents. For “throw” sense, compare huck. The “foul up” sense is presumably influenced by bork (late 1990s), from broken.Anagrams
Kohr, Kroh, khorIs Hork a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
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Scrabble US
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Scrabble UK
YES
English International (SOWPODS)
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Scrabble Global
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Points in Different Games
Scrabble
11
Words with Friends
10
The word Hork is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends