Kevork

Origin

Clipping of Kevorkian, after Jack Kevorkian

Full definition of kevork

Verb

1. (slang) To commit suicide.
• 1994 , , Car and Driver - Volume 39 , 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 , 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 , 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.
2. (slang) To terminate.
• 1998 - , John Seabrook , Deeper: Adventures on the Net , 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 , Before she was kevorked, yeah.

Noun

1. (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, "...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.”