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fork something out (to someone)

1. Inf. Lit. to serve food to someone, using a fork. He forked out the chicken to everyone. He brought up a big dish of fried chicken and forked it out.

2. Fig. to give out something to someone. We forked the coupons out to everyone who asked for them. We forked out the coupons.

See also: fork, out

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I'm at low-water-mark myself--only one bob and a magpie; but, as far as it goes, I'll fork out and stump. Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress by Dickens, Charles View in context 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. The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context			force to be reckoned with force to the wall fore fore and aft foreclose on foregone foregone conclusion forelock-tugging forest forever forever and ever forewarn forewarn about Forewarned is forearmed forget forget about forget it Forget it! forget manners forget oneself Forget you! forgive Forgive and forget forgive for fork fork out fork over fork some money out forked form form an opinion form and substance form from form into form out of former fort forth fortify fortune Fortune favors the brave forty forty winks forward forwards foul foul out foul own nest foul play foul up foul-mouthed			forjudge forjudge forjudged forjudges forjudging fork fork fork fork fork fork Fork (digging) Fork (digging) Fork (disambiguation) Fork (disambiguation) Fork (software development) Fork (software development) Fork beam Fork bomb Fork chuck Fork head Fork in the road Fork Length Fork lift Fork Lift Operator Fork Lift Truck Fork Lift Truck Association Fork Lift Vehicle Fork Mounting fork oscillator fork out fork over fork over fork pocket fork some money out Fork truck Fork Truck Association Fork Union Aquatic Club Fork Union Military Academy fork up fork up fork up fork up fork, face-bow fork-and-tongue joint Fork-Head Activin Signal Transducer-1 fork-join model Fork-lift truck Fork-lift truck fork-like Fork-Mounted Drum Lifters Fork-tailed Fork-tailed Flycatcher Fork-tailed gull Fork-tailed kite Fork/Join Queueing Networks Fork/Spoon forkball forkballer forkballs

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