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fork up

/fɔːrk ʌp/

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verb

/fɔːrk ʌp/C1formalamerican
  • ruФразовый глагол, означающий платить или отдавать деньги, часто неохотно или под давлением.

A phrasal verb meaning to pay or hand over money, often reluctantly or under pressure.

uncountable · transitive · phrasal, separable

  1. Pay money (often reluctantly)informalamerican

    To pay a sum of money, especially when it is considered excessive or unwillingly.

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    • I had to fork up $200 for the parking ticket.
    • He forked up the cash for the expensive dinner.
    • They made him fork up the full amount immediately.

    Synonymsante upcough upfork outpay uppony upshell out

Forms
  • forked up past participle
  • forked up past simple
  • forking up present participle
  • forks up third person singular

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Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset · 0.3.1

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Vocabulary data from the Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset (CC BY 4.0), https://huggingface.co/datasets/Fristail27/vocab-bloom-hub-en

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