Burke
- Proper noun. (surname, topographical) for someone who lived in a fortified place.
- Proper noun. One of various places in the United States.
- Verb. To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection.
- Verb. To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.
- Noun. (British, slang) Variant spelling of berk.
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