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york

verbverbtop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • //jɔː(ɹ)k//

to bowl a yorker at a batsman, especially to get a batsman out in this way.

verb

  1. 1

    to bowl a yorker at a batsman, especially to get a batsman out in this way.

Etymology

Back-formation from yorker.

verb

  1. 1

    slangTo vomit.

    BADGER: They're eating blueberry pies... […] Okay, finally, Kirk, he can't take it anymore. He yorks! Now it's just down to Chekov and Spock.

Etymology

Perhaps imitative.

Forms

past tense
yorked
past participle
yorked
present participle
yorking
third person singular
yorks
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).