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bonk

Pronunciation: /bɒŋk/

(also North American boink)
informal
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Definition of bonk

verb

  • 1 [with object] hit (someone or something):he bonked his head on the plane’s low bulkhead
  • 2 [no object] British have sexual intercourse: the young couple bonking upstairs [with object]:Juan was forcibly ejected for bonking his host’s wife at a party
  • 3 [no object] (of a cyclist or runner) reach a point of exhaustion that makes it impossible to go further: I bonked and couldn’t pedal another stroke

noun

  • 1an act or the sound of hitting someone or something:give it a bonk with a hammer
  • 2British an act of sexual intercourse.
  • 3 (the bonk) a level of exhaustion that makes a cyclist or runner unable to go further: we had the bonk when we were saddle sore

Origin:

1930s: imitative

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