English
Alternative spellings
bork
Etymology
From Robert Bork, rejected US Supreme Court nominee
Verb
Infinitive
to Bork
Third person singular
Borks
Simple past
Borked
Past participle
Borked
Present participle
Borking
to Bork (third-person singular simple present Borks, present participle Borking, simple past and past participle Borked)
(US, politics) To defeat a judicial nomination through a concerted attack on the nominee's character, background and philosophy.
2002, Orrin G. Hatch, Capital Hill Hearing Testimony the before United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, February 7, 2002, [1]
After an eight-year hiatus, these groups are back on the scene, ready to implement an apparent vicious strategy of Borking any judicial nominee who happens to disagree with their view of how the world should be.
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