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Fork out   /fɔrk aʊt/   Listen
Fork out

verb
1.
To surrender someone or something to another.  Synonyms: deliver, fork over, fork up, hand over, render, turn in.  "Render up the prisoners" , "Render the town to the enemy" , "Fork over the money"






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"Fork out" Quotes from Famous Books



... cronies ran the three miles out and ditto home, Wilson subsequently standing tea, for, as he pathetically explained, "I was overhauling Rogers hand over hand when I slipped my shoe, else he'd have had to fork out." Thus Jack became again for a while the common or garden variety of school-boy, and ...
— Acton's Feud - A Public School Story • Frederick Swainson

... there? All that Elise could offer him, failing her depreciated securities, was the reversion of a legacy of five hundred pounds promised to her in her aunt's will. She had spoken very hopefully of this legacy. Was he prepared to fork out a whole five hundred pounds on the offchance of Elise's aunt dying within a reasonable time and making no alteration in her will? In a certain contingency he was prepared. He was prepared to do all that and more for Elise. But it was not possible, it was not ...
— Mr. Waddington of Wyck • May Sinclair

... when he first struck the gulch, and he used to bring in results according to the looks of the customer. If the man looked tender around the feet, Aggy'd knock it to him, and probably the shave-tail would be so pleased that he would fork out an extra ten; but if he was plainly vented as one of the boys, there would be just enough pay in the return to encourage him. Now, Jones did everything shipshape and in style. Here's the paper ...
— Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters • Henry Wallace Phillips



Words linked to "Fork out" :   hand, bail, give away, pass, turn in, reach, pass on, give, render, turn over



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