awk
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/ɔːk/
English
Definitions
adjective
- Odd; out of order; perverse.
- Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister“the awk end of a rod (the butt end).”
- Clumsy in performance or manners; not dexterous; awkward.
- (of a situation) Awkward; uncomfortable.
adverb
- Perversely; in the wrong way.
proper noun
- A Unix scripting language or the command line interface itself.“I used C, Perl, the Bourne shell, and some awk and tcl to implement these projects.”
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Synonyms
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