Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A deep ringing sound, as of a bell.
- intransitive verb To cause to sound with a deep ringing noise.
- intransitive verb To make a deep ringing noise.
- noun A water pipe that consists of a bottle or a vertical tube partially filled with liquid and a smaller tube ending in a bowl, used often in smoking narcotic substances.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A very wide
piton . - noun A
clang of a large bell. - noun Door bell
chimes . - verb to pull a bell.
- verb to ring a doorbell.
- noun A
vessel , usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used insmoking various substances; especiallymarijuana orpot . - noun A
device for rapidly consumingbeer , usually consisting of afunnel orreservoir of beer and a length oftubing .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a dull resonant sound as of a bell
- verb ring loudly and deeply
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Bella, as for you, I think youve been taking showers in bong water, listening to the beatles 24-7 (theyre later music, the earlier stuff was good) and putting crack in your coffee.
Friendly religious questions for Christians and other monotheists 2009
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But when I plugged it back into the third extension cable, I heard a little bing-bong from the computer.
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Bella, as for you, I think youve been taking showers in bong water, listening to the beatles 24-7 (theyre later music, the earlier stuff was good) and putting crack in your coffee.
Friendly religious questions for Christians and other monotheists 2009
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Was it just me or did anyone else see the word bong instead of bang on the last one?
Taking Liberties Jen 2009
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Out on the sugar-white Florida panhandle sand, freckle-faced Patrick Mulligan, 20, does a handstand while his friends from the University of Massachusetts funnel -- "bong" -- a quart of foaming Budweiser into his mouth.
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Out on the sugar-white Florida panhandle sand, freckle-faced Patrick Mulligan, 20, does a handstand while his friends from the University of Massachusetts funnel -- "bong" -- a quart of foaming Budweiser into his mouth.
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• must not use the word bong, marijuana or other synonyms for any illegal substance.
The Daily Aztec RSS 2009
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What The Social Network gets right, is that these two spaces are often cohabitated by the same people, especially at prestigious institutions like Harvard; at [substitute reputable school name here], the idiot who fell out of his dorm room window while clutching a bong is the same kid who discovered a plausible explanation to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity ... or whatever.
Zach Weisberg: Seeking Truth in The Social Network Zach Weisberg 2010
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What The Social Network gets right, is that these two spaces are often cohabitated by the same people, especially at prestigious institutions like Harvard; at [substitute reputable school name here], the idiot who fell out of his dorm room window while clutching a bong is the same kid who discovered a plausible explanation to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity ... or whatever.
Zach Weisberg: Seeking Truth in The Social Network Zach Weisberg 2010
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What The Social Network gets right, is that these two spaces are often cohabitated by the same people, especially at prestigious institutions like Harvard; at [substitute reputable school name here], the idiot who fell out of his dorm room window while clutching a bong is the same kid who discovered a plausible explanation to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity ... or whatever.
Zach Weisberg: Seeking Truth in The Social Network Zach Weisberg 2010
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