awk

/ɔːk//ɑːk/

adjective

  1. 1

    Odd; out of order; perverse.

  2. 2

    Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister

    “the awk end of a rod (the butt end).”
  3. 3

    Clumsy in performance or manners; not dexterous; awkward.

  4. 4

    (of a situation) Awkward; uncomfortable.

Synonyms

adverb

  1. 1

    Perversely; in the wrong way.

proper noun

  1. 1

    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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