kevork
English
Etymology
Clipping of Kevorkian, after Jack Kevorkian
Verb
kevork (third-person singular simple present kevorks, present participle kevorking, simple past and past participle kevorked)
- (slang) To commit suicide.
- 1994, Car and Driver - Volume 39, page 70:
- Top Three Reasons for the Fat Little Devils to Be Out Late: Hormones rampant. Waiting up for Dave. Trying to get Kevorked by a speeding car.
- 1995, Jennifer Hershey, Full Spectrum 5 - Volume 5, page 22:
- Believe me, to escape it, I'd've gladly kevorked.
- 2003, Janis Ian, Michael D. Resnick, Stars: original stories based on the songs of Janis Ian, page 12:
- A boy and a girl kevorked in her garage using his dad's car exhaust.
- 2004, Generations: The Journal of the Western Gerontological Society:
- ...divorce and abort more, cremate and kevork more.
- (slang) To terminate.
- 1998 -, John Seabrook, Deeper: Adventures on the Net, page 226:
- When Lorraine wouldn't stop making her inspirational postings, Dr. Goldberg apparently "kevorked" her — another useful on-lineism, which I had picked up on ECHO, meaning "terminated."
- 2001, Ruth Luban, Are You a Corporate Refugee?:
- Each week someone in the group would ask, "So, who is the next among us to be Kevorked?" Or, in response to the all- too -familiar sob story of a new member, one of the veterans would muse, "Uh-oh, sounds like he needs to be Kevorked .
- 2006, Gary L Albrecht, Sharon L. Snyder, Jerome Bickenbach, Encyclopedia of Disability- Volume 1, page 20:
- Before she was kevorked, yeah.
Noun
kevork (plural kevorks)
- (slang) A suicide or a homicide that has been made to look like a suicide.
- 2006, Jonathan Strahan, Modern Greats of Science Fiction: Nine Novellas of Distinction:
- She learned that I was using her to track the involuntary kevorks.
- 2013, Craig Nova, All the Dead Yale Men, page 65:
- "...There's all kinds of kervorks. Water. Air. Parking.” “Parking?” “When you start the engine of the car and close the garage door. That's a parking kervork.”