Edited sentence: ) These senses of the verb also relate to the failure of Bork's Supreme Court nomination.Another sense of the the verb to bork is as a slang term for the verb to vomit,  (as in to bork up one's dinner); and, by extension, to mean ejection or failure which is forcible and unexpected (as in to bork out or eject from an airplane about to crash, or to find one's web server borked or out of service