What Does This Mean?
Past tense of "to fisk": rebutted point by point, usually online, by quoting the original text passage by passage and answering each part. "Getting fisked" means having a post, article or statement taken apart in that way.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"The senator's op-ed got fisked on three blogs before lunch."
LORE & ORIGIN
The verb comes from the name of British journalist Robert Fisk, whose articles were frequent targets of line-by-line blog replies in the early 2000s. Wikipedia reports The Guardian dating the word's entry into the language to 2001, and Wiktionary cites uses from December 2002 and a 2008 Economist headline. This entry covers the past-tense form; the base term is fisking.
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