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Fork by Bottom500 player February 18, 2020
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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
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
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