Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To foul up; to be occupied with difficulty, tangle, or unpleasantness; to be broken. · To steal, especially petty theft or misnomer in jest. · To vomit, cough up. · To gulp
Onomatopoeia or imitative. For “cough up” sense, compare hawk/hock (16th century), which are almost homophonous in non-rhotic accents. For “throw” sense, compare huck. The “foul up” sense is presumably influenced by bork (late 1990s), from broken. The “steal” sense may be related to hook, which has the same slang meaning.
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