| A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc. |
| A pronged tool for use in the garden; a smaller hand fork for weeding etc., or larger for turning over the soil. |
| A gallows. |
| A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting. |
| A tuning fork. |
| An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two. |
| One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow. |
| A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions. |
| Used in the names of some river tributaries. (Example: West Fork White River and East Fork White River join together to form the White River of Indiana.) |
| A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths. |
| The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight). |
| A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program. |
| The splitting of a software development effort into two or more separate projects, especially in free and open-source software. |
| Any of the software projects resulting from such a split. (Example: LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.) |
| (cryptocurrency, by extension) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split. |
| The crotch. |
| A forklift. (Example: Are you qualified to drive a fork?) |
| The set of blades of a forklift, on which the goods to be raised are loaded. |
| In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork. (Example: The fork can be equipped with a suspension on mountain bikes.) |
| The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end. |
verb| To divide into two or more branches. (Example: A road, a tree, or a stream forks.) |
| To move with a fork (as hay or food). |
| To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process. |
| To split a (software) project into several projects. |
| To split a (software) distributed version control repository |
| To kick someone in the crotch. |
| To shoot into blades, as corn does. |
verb| To have sexual intercourse, to copulate. (Example: Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.) |
| To have sexual intercourse with. |
| To insert one’s penis, a dildo or other phallic object, into a specified orifice or cleft. |
| To put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation. (Example: I'm afraid they're gonna fuck you on this one.) |
| To defraud, deface or otherwise treat badly. (Example: I got fucked at the used car lot.) |
| Used to express great displeasure with someone or something. (Example: Fuck those jerks, and fuck their stupid rules!) |
| (usually followed by up) To break, to destroy. |
| To make a joke at one's expense; to make fun of in an embarrassing manner. |
| To throw, to lob something. (angrily) (Example: He fucked the dirty cloth out the window.) |
| To scold (Example: The sergeant fucked me upside down.) |
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