The hard drive broke down, so I forked out five hundred dollars for a new one.
to surrender someone or something to another; "the guard delivered the criminal to the police"; "render up the prisoners"; "render the town to the enemy"; "fork over the money"
If you fork out for something, you spend a lot of money on it. He will have to fork out for private school fees for Nina You don't ask people to fork out every time they drive up the motorways Britons fork out more than a billion pounds a year on toys. = cough up