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In a game of chess, the term "Fork" is used when a piece attacks 2 or more of the opponents pieces at the same time.

Quite often it's a Pawn or more frequently, a Knight that is responsible for executing a Fork.
Example 1:

White moved his Knight to square e6 placing black's King in check. Much to black's chagrin, his Queen was on f5 which also was a square the Knight was attacking when the check was placed. Thus creating a "Fork".

Because a Knight check can't be blocked, black had to move his King to get out of check, at which point the Knight captured black's Queen.

Example 2: White pushed his pawn to square e4 and as a result, attacked the black's Bishop on square d5 and Rook on square f5 simultaneously.
Fork by Baraka ALL Forums January 15, 2013
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The work that you Say instead of fuck when you're in the good place.
Eleanor Shellstrop: fork, wait what! I can't say fork?! What the fork up is going on?!
Fork by The RealTruth. October 22, 2019
a utensil used for either eating or stabbing people with
i ate that bitch with my fork
fork by Tiffany December 6, 2003
Something you don't need to be going around threatening to stab somebody with. A fork is used for eating food, and a person should have no reason to think of a fork as anything more than an eating utensil.
The guy who uses a fork to eat and not to make threats is the guy who should be left alone. The guy who uses a fork as an example of something he might do is the guy who needs his fork taken from him until he knows how to use a goddamn fork, or when to joke and when not to.
Fork by Solid Mantis June 20, 2018
taking a program, and using it for a different purpose, essentially two similar programs, based off the same coding.
non-tech guy: hey bob, I need that x1117 forked by tomorrow.

tech guy: sure evan!
fork by misingno March 21, 2013
fork by kjakes March 2, 2005