What does fork over mean?

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fork over

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. hand over, fork over, fork out, fork up, turn in, deliver, renderverb

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. fork oververb

    To turn over soil with a gardening fork.

  2. fork oververb

    To pay (implies lots of money).

ChatGPT

  1. fork over

    "Fork over" is an informal or slang term that means to hand over, give up, or surrender (usually money or goods) being demanded, often reluctantly.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fork over in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fork over in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of fork over in a Sentence

  1. Tom Suozzi:

    I support a new Bills stadium, and there was a way to get it built without having the governor forcing hard-working New Yorkers to fork over their tax dollars to help a billionaire donor get even richer.

  2. Lawrence Lustberg:

    This is not like Edward Snowden's going to fork over the money. This gives them a judgment they were going to get anyways.


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