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to boink

to boink

9.3
To make a short, bouncy sound and move in a funny way
  • verb
  • /bɔɪŋk/
  • Informal
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  • During the game, she boinked the rubber chicken, and everyone burst into laughter.

Examples

  • A cigar boinked itself into being between my lips.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • Let's instead of going straight across, let's go boink, boink.

  • "I just boinked a Flawed, Dad!"

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  • If making it even means that I'm supposed to boink Muffin, that would mean that you boinked...

  • A bummer since the whole joke with Moneypenny in the entire series of films is that she's got this totally obvious crush on James, and he flirts with her playfully, but she knows and he knows that he's never actually going to boink her.

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  • The little boy laughed as he boinked the ball off the wall and watched it bounce back.

  • As the car hit the speed bump, it boinked humorously before settling back down.

How Bouncy

to bounce
386 1.3
to boing
  • Informal
1 8.9
to boink
  • Informal
9.3
pop
3.1
to tap
174 1.0

Surface Forms

boink infinitive
boinked past
boinked past participle
boinking present participle
boinks third person singular

Etymology

The word boink comes from the sound of a quick, bouncy hit, like boing. To boink is to make that small, playful bounce or noise.