adjective
- broken or damaged beyond repair or usefulness
Usage: informal; originated from Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination hearings (1987)
verb
- to break or damage something severely; to ruin or sabotage
Usage: informal; third person singular present or past tense form
Examples
- My laptop is completely borked after the software update.
- The old printer got borked when we moved it to the new office.
- He borked the entire project by ignoring the instructions.
- The system was borked by a faulty hard drive.
- If you don't back up your files, you might bork everything.
- The deal fell through after they borked the negotiations.