burked
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(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To murder by suffocation.
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(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.
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(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang, historical) To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order to have a body to sell to anatomists, surgeons, etc.
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A number of places in the United States:
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A topographical surname from Anglo-Norman for someone who lived in a fortified place.
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A small city, the county seat of Gregory County, South Dakota.
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A town and village therein, in Franklin County, New York.
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A town in Caledonia County, Vermont, named after Edmund Burke.
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A town and unincorporated community therein, in Dane County, Wisconsin, named after Edmund Burke.
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A minor city in Angelina County, Texas.
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A ghost town in Shoshone County, Idaho.
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An unincorporated community in Grant County, Washington.
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A census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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A local government area in north-west Queensland, Australia, named after Robert O'Hara Burke; in full, the Shire of Burke.
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(British, slang) Alternative form of berk. [(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang, derogatory, vulgar) a fool, a prat, a twit, etc.]
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