Definitions
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- noun A heavy
artillery bombardment . - verb To unleash such a bombardment.
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Examples
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Unfortunately he got the huff on, rather than a stonk on and stomped, or rather hopped off.
Army Rumour Service 2010
bilby commented on the word stonk
"I gave a cheery wave at the hill. 'Hello, lads,' I called.
It was amazing, Jerry could see us but wasn't doing anything about it, a strange uneasy feeling; anticipating a Stonk by Jerry, we set to and dug a funk hole into the side of the ditch. A plume of black smoke is ascending from the Jerry position.
'He's still got fags then,' said Edgington."
- Spike Milligan, 'Mussolini: My Part In His Downfall.'
A footnote on the page for Stonk - Concentration of Artillery fire.
April 19, 2009
alexz commented on the word stonk
Spotted a free range definition in this week's news.
"STONK was an intentional mis-spelling of the word stock, because this post is referencing the apparent meme-ification of the stock market.
KNOW YOUR MEME!" - @IATSE
This weeks' news headlines included people on Reddit buying stocks in Gamestop to the dismay of hedge funds.
January 28, 2021
ry commented on the word stonk
how has this not shown up on the "Twitter isn'ts" and "Twitter hates" auto-lists?
February 4, 2021