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bork

(bɔːk)

vb (tr)

1. to incorrectly configure a device, esp a computer

2. to cause damage to

3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) jocular US to disrespect or vilify, esp in order to obstruct a person's appointment to public office

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bork

(bɔrk)
v.t.

to attack (a candidate or public figure) systematically, esp. in the media.

[1988, Amer.; after Judge Robert H. Bork, whose appointment to the Supreme Court was blocked in 1987 after an extensive media campaign by his opponents]

References in periodicals archive ?

The term "Borking" may simply be no more than sour grapes.

A man who had publicly allied himself with Bork protected himself from "Borking" by evading a thorough disclosure of his ideological similarity to Bork.

(7.) Commentators now use the term "Borking" to refer to prolonged, virulent attacks on judicial nominees.

On Dworkin and Borkin'

For liberals, on the other hand, "borking" means something quite different.

Judge-ment day: Bork earned his "borking"--but it took 55 Democratic senators to do it. Fighting a Bush Supreme Court nominee today is a different game

The Wall Street Journal called the attack "Borking Henry Kissinger." Exactly.

Stuck in the 1960s. (Notes & Comments: January 2003)

Violating its own published rules of engagement, it has even developed a taste for borking.

Nonetheless, the borking of Lani Guinier began with an April 30 op-ed by conservative legal activist Clint Bolick, who is practically an adjunct Journal staffer.

"Clinton's Quota Queens," which ran the day after Clinton nominated Guinier as assistant attorney general for civil rights, is a masterpiece of borking. In the space of a few hundred words, Bolick cobbles together a handful of partial quotes from Guinier's turgid, lengthy law review articles, adding a few of his own broad-brush characterizations, to portray her as a "Quota Queen." It was a catchy label, echoing Reagan's legendary welfare queens, and it stuck.