Stick A Fork In It Edit Meaning

1.

1) A state of completion.

2) To be completely destroyed or defeated.

Stick a fork in it, it's done.

Stick a fork in him, he's done.

See eugene

2.

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.

"I'm done. Stick a fork in me. It's been grand!" - Christian Slater, Pump Up The Volume, 1990

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3.

To be done, done with it.

stick a fork in it it's done

See it's, done, this, term, from, how, teenybopper, so, yeah

4.

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!”

See fork, stick, done, finished

5.

Exhausted, used up, finished. From meat that is fully cooked and ready to be handled with a fork.

That board is toast-stick a fork in it

6.

To stick a fork in something means to cease whatever is happening or being said.

Just stick a fork in it, Mike. Or, stick a fork in him, he's done for tonight.

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7.

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.

Now that Iraq has descended into chaos, you can stick a fork into Bush's re-election chances.