bonk
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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bonks,
present (3rd person singular)
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bonked,
past participle, past
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bonking
present participle
verb
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(tr) to hit
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to have sexual intercourse (with)
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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bonksimple
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bonkssimple
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have bonkedperfect
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has bonkedperfect
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am bonkingprogressive
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are bonkingprogressive
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is bonkingprogressive
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have been bonkingperfect progressive
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has been bonkingperfect progressive
Past
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bonkedsimple
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had bonkedperfect
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was bonkingprogressive
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were bonkingprogressive
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had been bonkingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of bonk
Perhaps variant of bong 1
Example Sentences
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Deputy Arthur Perry, who arrived at Stoneman Douglas during the shooting, testified Friday that when he tried to use his radio he only got a “bonk, bonk, bonk” noise.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
The Solana token has now indeed jumped as bonk has gained traction: it's up 131% in 2023, the biggest gainer among major cryptocurrencies.
From Reuters ● Jan. 17, 2023
It was like watching Tom and Jerry cartoons where the mouse hides behind the door holding a giant hammer to bonk the cat on the head when he races blindly into the room.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 16, 2022
Elsewhere, Jeffrey Donovan plays a fake psychic who starts having real visions after a bonk to the head in “Shut Eye.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2016
“You know, cheering, excitement, rah, rah, rah. The whole school gets together to watch the players bonk helmets and beat their chests.”
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
My jaw is so misshapen that I can feel it wriggle out of joint whenever I open wide enough for a sandwich or a yawn, until it bonks back into place.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
“When an elite runner bonks, their performance decline in absolute terms is smaller than when the rec runner bonks.”
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2016
The shipping is a tad bonks, so you might want to go in with a few friends and share the pain.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2010
Equipped with log slides, stump jibs, trashcan bonks, gap jumps, rope ollies, barrel jibs, old logo banners and all of the big jeans and flannel you can handle.
From Time Magazine Archive
When she sits up without thinking, she bonks her head.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
His hopes were dashed when the ball bonked off the helmet of Pittsburgh veteran David Freese, who was running toward second.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2018
I threw my hands up in terror but failed to block the projectile, which bonked me, hard, on the head.
From Slate ● May 24, 2018
Independent Journal Review revisits the time last year when Marco Rubio bonked a kid in a head with a football.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 26, 2016
Lying on his left side, Holtby reached for the puck, the one that had already skipped off his pads, bonked the near post and slid down his shoulder, trickling across the goal line.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2015
Joaquin hopes he doesn’t accidentally get bonked with a trumpet.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
It darted around the bottom of a white bucket, bonking its nose against the side and delicately fluttering the translucent fins that swept back toward its tail.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2023
The team's trainers told Visger they were looking into rigging some kind of customized helmet, which would protect his brain shunt and allow him to continue bonking heads at the line of scrimmage.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2022
In addition to Myles Garrett’s indefinite suspension for bonking Steelers QB Mason Rudolph on the head with his own helmet, the NFL docked the Browns DE $45,623.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2019
Like Dorothy after bonking her head in that storm, reporters on Thursday found themselves in what seemed like an alternate universe.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2018
Roy’s mother made him stay home all weekend to make sure there was no delayed reaction to the golf-ball bonking.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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