Definitions
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- verb US, politics, often pejorative To defeat a judicial nomination through a concerted attack on the nominee's character, background and philosophy.
- verb To
misconfigure , especially a computer or other complex device. - verb To
break or damage.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Twenty-two years later, Bork is remembered more as a verb -- to "bork" -- which conservative columnist William Safire defined as to engage in a vicious attack on "a candidate or appointee, especially by misrepresentation in the media."
Karl Frisch: Forget Being "Borked," She's Been "Sotomayored" 2009
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February 18th, 2010 at 2: 00 pm hey! bork is an A’
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Far from the fictional underpinnings of the verb "bork," Judge Sotomayor has been the victim of journalistic malpractice.
Karl Frisch: Forget Being "Borked," She's Been "Sotomayored" 2009
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Souter's views on contentious issues were unknown, and the Bush administration wanted a nominee with no "paper trail" that could be used by Senate Democrats to "bork" him.
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Souter's views on contentious issues were unknown, and the Bush administration wanted a nominee with no "paper trail" that could be used by Senate Democrats to "bork" him.
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Also if you select text from a web page, message, or composition window, you can right-click and "bork" a copy of the text to the clipboard and paste it back into a text editor, form, or message.
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Bork! also works with Thunderbird and will automatically "bork" messages marked as junk.
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It can also "bork" based on sender address, again using a list of patterns you create.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010
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Bork! also works with Thunderbird and will automatically "bork" messages marked as junk.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010
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Also if you select text from a web page, message, or composition window, you can right-click and "bork" a copy of the text to the clipboard and paste it back into a text editor, form, or message.
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whichbe commented on the word bork
(An eponym from Judge Robert Bork) U.S. political slang to defame or vilify (a person) systematically, especially in the mass media, with the aim of preventing his or her appointment to public office; to obstruct or thwart (a person) in this way.
May 12, 2008
seanahan commented on the word bork
Also used as an alternation for broken, as in, "This code is borked".
May 13, 2008
bilby commented on the word bork
Really? Very interesting usage. Reminds me of something, can't quite put my finger on it *thinking*
May 13, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word bork
It reminds me of the Swedish chef on the Muppets.
Bork bork bork!
May 13, 2008
bilby commented on the word bork
Noobly noot, noobly noot!
May 13, 2008
sarra commented on the word bork
I like the variation b0rken.
May 13, 2008
bilby commented on the word bork
Reminds me of some Jakarta slang in Indonesia where there was (somewhat) random reordering of letters within conventional words, but typically not the first the letter. The word was then thought to be generally recognisable based upon the utility of the first letter and the 'crossworld puzzle' ability of others to reorder the remaining letters. Often accompanied by reversal of last syllable.
eg. bokap - father
derived from 'bapak', father
Probably originated as a way for drug addicts to avoid detection.
May 13, 2008
sarra commented on the word bork
remembers about [verlan, goes off to add]
edit: comes back embarrassed to find she already has
May 14, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word bork
JM now knows that an object that functions correctly without meaningful results is a bork! How many borks do you know?
February 1, 2009