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forked definition

forked (fôrkt)

adjective

  1. having a fork or forks; divided into branches; cleft forked lightning
  2. having prongs: often in hyphenated compounds five-forked
Also forky fork′y, forkier fork′i·er, forkiest fork′i·est

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