Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To strike or cause to come into contact.
- intransitive verb Chiefly British Vulgar Slang To have sexual intercourse with.
- intransitive verb To collide against something.
- intransitive verb To become suddenly and extremely fatigued, especially in an endurance sport such as bicycling.
- intransitive verb Chiefly British Vulgar Slang To engage in sexual intercourse.
- noun A blow to the head.
- noun A hollow thud.
- noun A state of sudden and extreme fatigue often experienced when participating in endurance sports, especially bicycling.
- noun Chiefly British Vulgar Slang An act of sexual intercourse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
strike orcollide with something. - verb To have
sexual intercourse . - verb skateboarding To hit something with the front wheels of the skateboard, whilst in the air, this pre-dates the snowboarding term,
- verb snowboarding To hit something (especially a tree) with one's snowboard, especially while in the air.
- verb To experience sudden and severe
fatigue in an endurance sports event due toglycogen depletion. - noun A
bump on thehead . - noun Any minor collision or random meeting.
- noun An act of sexual intercourse.
- noun A condition of sudden, severe
fatigue in an endurance sports event caused byglycogen depletion.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb hit hard
- verb have sexual intercourse with
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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*tink scraaaatch hey! bonk clink ow! tink tock bonk*
supr genius kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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So it's important not to "bonk" - the term used to describe what happens when muscle fuel (glycogen) is depleted and a runner "hits the wall."
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local editor@denverpost.com ( 2010
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He passed out while standing, and the bonk was his cranium bouncing off the floor.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Refusal to Consent to Caesarean Section as Neglect of the Child? 2009
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I hazza hammer.. maybe we cud whak a bonk and flattin tehm owt!
giggity giggity giggity - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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While, for an immersive sim, the hollow "bonk" noise engendered by hitting a rival is noticeably unrealistic.
Gran Turismo 5 – review Giles Richards 2010
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Where I have been playing and chatting "bonk" is a short term for an automated emote from the game, saying something like: "Urk hits you over the head."
thinking with my fingers Torill 2001
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Where I have been playing and chatting "bonk" is a short term for an automated emote from the game, saying something like: "Urk hits you over the head."
Archive 2001-08-01 Torill 2001
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Speaking on Last Call with Carson Daly, Piper explained the terms "bonk" and
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If you use a FFT application (measures resonances) and so much as "bonk" on a mandolin, anywhere on the mandolin, the FFT will detect all the resonances in the mandolin; top, back, air, body, all of them from one "bonk".
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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Your body stores and releases glycogen from the liver during these active times, but it only has so much ... so when cycling for example, people will 'bonk' or 'hit the wall', where they just run out of juice, so to speak.
Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes - A Community for People Touched by Diabetes Bob Simpson 2009
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The endurance athlete, running perilously low on fuel, is said to hit the wall, or bonk.
Energy, and How to Get It Condé Nast 2021
uselessness commented on the word bonk
O the glory days of youth, the exuberance of childhood, of bonking one's peers on the head with a wiffle bat.
June 25, 2007
oroboros commented on the word bonk
Knob in reverse.
July 22, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word bonk
Your point being?
October 27, 2007
goatboy commented on the word bonk
A staple word of the British tabloid press.
February 5, 2008
ouibug commented on the word bonk
This word is also used widely by endurance athletes. It is a name for the point reached during exercise at which the body has depleted its glycogen reserves and feels as though there is absolutely no energy or fuel in the body to draw from. Roughly equivalent to "hitting the wall."
Examples from An Ironman is Forever by Tammy Smith (http://www.ucdtri.com/articles/ironman.php):
"If an athlete fails to notice their nutritional needs, they may feel dizzy, disoriented and extremely tired. To triathletes, this is known as the sensation of "bonking."
"Before you start to bonk, you start to see stars and get kind of loopy, your muscles no worky," says 31 year old Juan Lang who is training for the Ironman Wisconsin Collegiate Championships in September. "When I actually start to bonk I start to lose coordination and judgment and it becomes kind of dangerous. It's totally dependent on whether you've had enough calories. I've actually seen someone just fall over off her bike."
"I know when I'm bonking because I look over and think "Oh, it would really nice if I could just go to sleep in that patch of shade right there," says Iley.
She remembers her worst bonk during the World's Toughest Triathlon in Auburn 2003. "It was during the run and all of a sudden I didn't know where I was and I was so disoriented that I didn't remember the last mile that I'd run. I was so dehydrated. I ended up in the fire station with four firemen around me asking if I was okay and feeding me water."
June 16, 2009