borking

See also: Borking

English

Etymology

From bork +‎ -ing.

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Noun

borking (plural borkings)

  1. (ambitransitive, US, politics, often derogatory) The act of defeating a person's appointment or election, judicial nomination, etc., through a concerted attack on the person's character, background, and philosophy.
    • 2006 October 30, Jeffrey Lord, “Borking Rush”, in American Spectator‎[1], archived from the original on 17 October 2017:
      Above all it discusses the best tactics to defeat a borking. Having been in the [Ronald] Reagan White House when Robert Bork was borked, I knew something about the subject, which was a huge help when the same borking guns were turned on my friend Judge [D. Brooks] Smith years later.

Verb

borking

  1. present participle and gerund of bork.

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