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gork

American  
[gawrk] / gɔrk /

noun

Medicine/Medical Slang: Disparaging and Offensive.

  1. a patient whose brain has suffered severe and irreversible damage and whose vital functions are being maintained by artificial means.

Etymology

Origin of gork

First recorded in 1970–75; perhaps back formation from gorked (slang) anesthetized; apparently an expressive coinage

Example Sentences

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But you don’t need to be Puerto Rican or even Latino to gork this kind of humor. 

From Forbes • Sep. 16, 2013

Most of them were nonsense: bork, dork, gork, hork, jork.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau

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