Bork in English dictionary

  • bork

    Meanings and definitions of "Bork"

    • To misconfigure, especially a computer or other complex device.
    • To break or damage.
    • (US, politics, often pejorative) To defeat a judicial nomination through a concerted attack on the nominee's character, background and philosophy.
    • (rugby, informal) an offence which the player thowing in to a line-out moves his arms as if to throw the ball, but does not release it. This incurs an immediate free-kick against the original line-out takers.
    • verb
      (slang)
      To misconfigure, especially a computer or other complex device.
    • verb
      (slang)
      To break or damage.
    • verb
      (US, politics, often pejorative)
      To defeat a judicial nomination through a concerted attack on the nominee's character, background and philosophy.

    Grammar and declension of Bork

    • bork ( third-person singular simple present borks, present participle borking, simple past and past participle borked)
    • bork ( plural  borks)
    • bork (third-person singular simple present borks, present participle borking, simple past borked, past participle borked or borken)
    • bork (third-person singular simple present borks, present participle borking, simple past and past participle borked)
  • Bork

    Meanings and definitions of "Bork"

    • (US, politics) To defeat a judicial nomination through a concerted attack on the nominee's character, background and philosophy.
    • (US, politics) To fire an honest government official in an attempt to prevent embarrassment to and exposure of a dishonest government officeholder who has conspired to commit high crimes (term first used by the National Lampoon Radio Hour in to describe the 1973 firing of Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox by Solicitor General Robert Bork in the "Saturday Night Massacre" orchestrated by Bork and President Richard Nixon).
    • verb
      (US, politics)
      To defeat a judicial nomination through a concerted attack on the nominee's character, background and philosophy.

    Grammar and declension of Bork

    • Bork ( third-person singular simple present Borks, present participle Borking, simple past and past participle Borked)
    • Bork (third-person singular simple present Borks, present participle Borking, simple past and past participle Borked)

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