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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of forklift.

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Examples

  • These guys said that servers get "forklifted" every 18 months or so, and when that happens they would install the new gear at the new colo and bring the new site up before moving out of the other one.

    This Week's InterXion IPO: Colocation, the European Way - Seeking Alpha 2011

  • For what it's worth, as an IT guy myself, I've been part of what our organization called the "forklift project" where we disconnected network and mains power from everything in a rack, shrink-wrapped it, forklifted it into a truck, drove it to a new facility 30 miles away, forklifted it into position, plugged everything back into the duplicated infrastructure, and powered it all up.

    Gotta move on (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • Snark Palin continued her campaign against first lady Michelle Obama's campaign to keep the nation's youth from becoming bedridden obese people who have to be forklifted out of their houses to make doctor's appointments.

    Sarah Palin's 'sarcas-ka' Jonathan Capehart 2010

  • And it's only been a year since Americans watched downed and dying cows waterboarded and forklifted to slaughter for the school lunch program at Hallmark Meat Company in Chino, CA.

    Thanks A Lot, HBO, Says Meat Industry 2009

  • Maybe if I called the flight attendant she could have him forklifted.

    One of Those Hideous Books Where The Mother Dies Sonya Sones 2008

  • I really needed to be forklifted back to my place – this was just too much food for us, on top of 5 different wines.

    The Love for Food and Jeni: How Food Brought Us Together e d b m 2008

  • Very limited focus has been placed on the care and respect -- in life, and in death -- of these sentient beings who spend their lives on feed lots, only to wind up being forklifted to a bitter end.

    Elissa Altman: Turn Your Head and Barf: What Happens When the USDA Looks the Other Way 2008

  • I won't be done until the day I have to be forklifted out of my bed just to go to the bathroom. *beep* *beep* *beep* Dylan coming through.

    The Love for Food and Jeni: How Food Brought Us Together e d b m 2008

  • On my Huffington Post page several months back, after images of downer cows being forklifted to the slaughter floor hit the news, I talked about a local, natural beef purveyor a few miles down the road from me in bucolic Connecticut; when I went on their website, I stopped when I read the line "our beef is processed in a USDA-approved plant."

    Elissa Altman: A Darker Shade of Green 2008

  • Volunteers pulled down an eight-foot statue of the Plain Texas Talker, draped a noose around its neck and forklifted it into a Dumpster.

    Superhero 2008

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