1. To be done, finshed or over.
v. "Stick a fork in me"
In reference to a piece of meat or sausage, whereby one sticks a fork in it to test if it is properly cooked.
v. "Stick a fork in me"
In reference to a piece of meat or sausage, whereby one sticks a fork in it to test if it is properly cooked.
by Archon March 22, 2004
by eugene February 8, 2004
stick a fork in it it's done
by DizzyLizzy February 14, 2007
Meaning that something is definitively finished such that whatever it is doing (or being done to it) should or can be stopped, or considered to be done.
From grilling -- not to test whether something is done, b/c that wouldn't make any sense, given what the phrase means. Instead, to stick a fork in the piece of sufficiently-grilled-meat so as to take it off the grill. Connotations of definitive doneness enhanced by sub-conscious notion that the piece of meat is not only completely cooked, it is no longer reasonably conceived of as part of a living animal, and thus can be stabbed with impunity.
From grilling -- not to test whether something is done, b/c that wouldn't make any sense, given what the phrase means. Instead, to stick a fork in the piece of sufficiently-grilled-meat so as to take it off the grill. Connotations of definitive doneness enhanced by sub-conscious notion that the piece of meat is not only completely cooked, it is no longer reasonably conceived of as part of a living animal, and thus can be stabbed with impunity.
by romberjo July 31, 2004
by numerator May 2, 2005
by § July 19, 2004
Indicating a losing or lost cause, with origins in the cooking practice of sticking a fork in meat to determine when done. Also "put a fork in me," "stick a fork in you."
“Let me explain, you're 25 now and will likely stay pretty hot for the next 5 years, but less so each year. Then the fade begins in earnest. By 35 stick a fork in it!”
by sensitivitytothings May 4, 2008