kevork

English

Etymology

Clipping of Kevorkian, named after American euthanasia proponent Jack Kevorkian (1928–2011).

Verb

kevork (third-person singular simple present kevorks, present participle kevorking, simple past and past participle kevorked)

1. (slang, intransitive) To commit suicide.
   • 1995, Jennifer Hershey, Full Spectrum 5, volume 5, page 22:

     Believe me, to escape it, I'd've gladly kevorked.

   • 2003, Janis Ian, Michael D. Resnick, Stars: original stories based on the songs of Janis Ian, page 12:

     A boy and a girl kevorked in her garage using his dad's car exhaust.

   • 2004, Generations: The Journal of the Western Gerontological Society:

     […] divorce and abort more, cremate and kevork more.

2. (slang, transitive) To terminate.
   • 1994, Car and Driver, volume 39, page 70:

     Top Three Reasons for the Fat Little Devils to Be Out Late: Hormones rampant. Waiting up for Dave. Trying to get Kevorked by a speeding car.

   • 1998, John Seabrook, Deeper: Adventures on the Net, page 226:

     When Lorraine wouldn't stop making her inspirational postings, Dr. Goldberg apparently "kevorked" her — another useful on-lineism, which I had picked up on ECHO, meaning "terminated."

   • 2001, Ruth Luban, Are You a Corporate Refugee?:

     Each week someone in the group would ask, "So, who is the next among us to be Kevorked?" Or, in response to the all-too-familiar sob story of a new member, one of the veterans would muse, "Uh-oh, sounds like he needs to be Kevorked .

   • 2006, Gary L Albrecht, Sharon L. Snyder, Jerome Bickenbach, Encyclopedia of Disability, volume 1, page 20:

     Before she was kevorked, yeah.

Noun

kevork (plural kevorks)

1. (slang) A suicide or a homicide that has been made to look like a suicide.
   • 2006, Jonathan Strahan, Modern Greats of Science Fiction: Nine Novellas of Distinction:

     She learned that I was using her to track the involuntary kevorks.

   • 2013, Craig Nova, All the Dead Yale Men, page 65:

     "...There's all kinds of kervorks. Water. Air. Parking.” “Parking?” “When you start the engine of the car and close the garage door. That's a parking kervork.”