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What is "fork out"

Wiktionary
fork out

vb. (context transitive English) To pay out, to hand over

WordNet
fork out

v. to surrender someone or something to another; "the guard delivered the criminal to the police"; "render up the prisoners"; "render the town to the enemy"; "fork over the money" [syn: hand over, fork over, fork up, turn in, get in, deliver, render]

Usage examples of "fork out".

Then I walked away, down the sidewalk, holding my tuning fork out in front of me.

This time I smacked the fork out of his hand, and he stumbled into an end table, knocking the table over, smashing a lamp in the process.

The jolly old grandfather unto this, retorts, not only that he declines to fork out with that cheerful readiness which is always so agreeable and pleasant in a gentleman of his time of life, but that he will bow up, and call names, and make reflections whenever they meet.

Cyprus panicked momentarily and tried to pull the fork out of his mouth.

Blood was running from the wound, but he didn't waste time pulling the fork out.

He unfolded a pocket fork out of a clasp knife he took from his pocket and sat down, eyes bent on his meal.

Certainly you can fork out three hundred sheets for a fifty-sheet ticket that in a justly ordered world wouldn’.