What is "forking over"

Usage examples of "forking over".

So while we were inside, signing the contract and forking over the $$$, they were bashing down the porch.

He smiled to himself remembering the sequence of events that led up to Ralph forking over another hundred dollars to Teeter in the Sheriff's office.

It-was surf 'n turf night, and one deck down and fifty feet aft, the cooks were forking over tender fillets and fishing fresh lobster tails out of the steaming caldrons.

Two or three fields away I saw two farm-workers forking over a manure heap.

There were the bees, the eagle and, at the far end of the garden, old Brother Lu-Tze dreamily forking over the dung heap.

If I, this guard, also happened to be the contact for Ben Stevens, the person forking over cash in exchange for making sure Waddell's body wasn't printed at the morgue, for example, then I'd know exactly where to turn.

The bank showed no particular excitement about forking over twenty grand in mixed bills.

A lot with less hours on their licenses than he had were forking over fewer banana-skins to the insurance heathens than he was.

One of these, early that morning in Georgia, had seen him forking over fifty-five dollars to a justice of the peace roused from his bed by the deputy sheriff who had arrested him.