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merk

1
or murk

[ murk ]

verb (used with object)

  1. Slang. to defeat overwhelmingly, beat up, kill, or eliminate:

    Eventually they rip off the wrong person and then they get merked.

    If they are so tough, how come they got merked by 12-year-olds?



merk

2

[ merk ]

noun

  1. Chiefly Scot. a former money of account and silver coin of Scotland, equal to 13s. 4d.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of merk1

First recorded in 2005–10; origin uncertain

Origin of merk2

First recorded in 1480–90; variant of mark 2( def )

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Example Sentences

Yet it was Merk who was dropped as a CIC agent, not Barbie, who remained on the payroll.

“The cast came in and helped out after the storm,” Merk said.

A much more congenial and intimate connection existed between Chopin, Slavik, and Merk.

The Baroness von Merk was very old and paralytic, and possessed a fearful temper.

And you shot Merk, but he ran away, and he will be summoning his friends to come and kill you now!

They enacted that the brewers should sell by wholesale at a merk Scots per gallon, and that dealers should sell by retail at 2d.

"Merk moi werds," he said to his apprentice, as together they watched from behind the door the preparations across the street.

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