merk

[ murk ]

verb (used with object)

Slang. to defeat overwhelmingly, beat up, kill, or eliminate: Eventually they rip off the wrong person and then they get merked.If they are so tough, how come they got merked by 12-year-olds?

Origin of merk

First recorded in 2005–10; origin uncertain

merk²

[ merk ]

noun

Chiefly Scot. a former money of account and silver coin of Scotland, equal to 13s. 4d.

First recorded in 1480–90; variant of mark²

Yet it was merk who was dropped as a CIC agent, not Barbie, who remained on the payroll.
Week in Death: Earl Browning, the Moral Spy | The Telegraph | November 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
“The cast came in and helped out after the storm,” merk said.
Reality TV Takes Back Seat at ‘Jersey Shore’ Seaside Heights Telethon | Malcolm Jones | November 20, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
A much more congenial and intimate connection existed between Chopin, Slavik, and merk.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick Niecks
The Baroness von merk was very old and paralytic, and possessed a fearful temper.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 33, November 1877 | Various
And you shot merk, but he ran away, and he will be summoning his friends to come and kill you now!
The Pirates of Ersatz | Murray Leinster

They enacted that the brewers should sell by wholesale at a merk Scots per gallon, and that dealers should sell by retail at 2d.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal Vol. XVII. No. 418. New Series. | William and Robert Chambers
"merk moi werds," he said to his apprentice, as together they watched from behind the door the preparations across the street.
The Call of the Town | John Alexander Hammerton

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