Usually means: Annoy or irritate someone greatly.
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  1. irk: Merriam-Webster
  2. irk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. irk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. irk: Collins English Dictionary
  5. irk: Vocabulary.com
  6. Irk, irk: Wordnik
  7. irk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. irk: Wiktionary
  9. irk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. irk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. irk: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Irk, irk: Dictionary.com
  13. irk: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. irk: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Irk (disambiguation), Irk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Irk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. irk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. irk: Rhymezone
  19. Irk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. irk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. irk: FreeDictionary.org
  22. irk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Irk: The Word Detective
  24. irk: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. irk: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. irk: Legal dictionary

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  1. irk: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. IRK: Acronym Finder
  2. IRK: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. irk: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) to irritate; annoy; bother
noun:  A river in Greater Manchester, England, which joins the River Irwell in Manchester city centre.

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