to clonk
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8.3
- verb
- /klɒŋk/
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golpear
- "I read this thing in the National Reporter," Charly piped up, "where these bad guys got mad at another bad guy for telling the police about something, and they clonked him on the head and stuffed a dead parakeet in his mouth."
Examples
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She reached out behind her for an old aluminum phallus that happened to be hanging around and clonked Mr. Meant-Well on the head with it.
Fiction book (1993) -
Now I got it, that's the guy that clonked the skipper.
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- Stand here, and as soon as he comes through here, clonk him.
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And that's when she clonked him.
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All the same, except for different sizes and different black-and-blue marks where they had clonked each other.
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Sounds pretty normal; my torts sometimes wake up and rearrange their furniture (clunk and clonk in their enclosure) for 20 or so minutes, maybe bask a little under the ceramic heat lamp, then crawl back into their hide house.
Blog text (16) -
I accidentally clonked my head against the doorframe while walking in.
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He swung the hammer and clonked the nail into the wood, producing a loud sound.
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The bag clonked against the metal railing as he hurried past.
Synonyms
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3.4
To hit something hard so it makes a dull sound
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8.6
To hit someone on the head with force
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3.5
To make a heavy, dull sound when something hits or falls
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9.0
To hit something so it makes a dull heavy sound
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7.1
To move with a dull thud, as when a horse's hooves hit the ground
To hit something so it makes a dull heavy sound
To hit something so it makes a dull thumping sound
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Etymology
Clonk comes from copying the sound of a heavy hit, so to clonk something is to hit it so it makes a dull, heavy noise. That's why saying you 'clonked' something means you struck it with a solid, thudding sound.