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
"Investors need to be especially cautious when it comes to coins like doge, Shiba Inu and bonk," said Les Borsai, co-founder of digital assets services firm Wave Financial.
From Reuters ● Jan. 17, 2023
You mean like a bonk on the head, right?
From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2019
Maybe that sleeper berth’s ladder actually did bonk me on the head.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2016
I bonk my head on the inside of my sleep cell as a soft voice speaks over the ship’s comm system, jolting me awake.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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
Between broken bones — yes, plural — and bonks to the head, Spade’s corporate dork spends most of the mercifully short running time willing himself to be invisible.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2020
“When an elite runner bonks, their performance decline in absolute terms is smaller than when the rec runner bonks.”
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2016
In addition to new traditional park features, creative wooden elements will complement the park design, including tree bonks, slides and a hitching post.
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
The massive, stainless steel behemoth bonked into the sign around 11:45 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
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
United was heading down a familiar and ruinous path Sunday, falling behind early in the second half when a ball bonked off a defender’s head and into the net.
From Washington Post ● May 20, 2013
He bonked the heel of his palm against his forehead.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
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
The goslings smiled and squawked and flapped over to their parents, bonking into one another and tumbling across the ground.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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