fork : noun A fork is a table utensil with four teeth that is used to prick food.
Have a pretty, a good, a hell of a fork: eat with a good appetite and a lot, be a big eater.
He's a solid / a rough / a good fork: a big eater, a foodie.
He is not to be taken with forks: he is not easy, he has a bad temper.
Mark or count with a fork: merchant who increases his notes, increases his notes to steal or deceive the customer.
Father Adam's fork: the fingers.
Fork stroke: stroke which consists of inserting the index and middle fingers outstretched into the eyes of an opponent.
To mark with a fork: to inflate a count, as if it were inscribed with the four prongs of a fork.
Fork: pickpocket, pickpocket (an allusion to thieves who have this specialty only use the two fingers of the right hand which form a fork to extract the purses from the pockets of onlookers).
Swallow his fork: die.
Quote from the American writer Charles Bukowski: “The plates went around. Harry Friedman received his and tackled it on the spot. He appeared to be endowed with a solid blow with his fork. "In Hollywood.