Stonk
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /stɒŋk/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Stonk is a noun meaning (military, slang) A heavy artillery bombardment.
Meaning
(military, slang) A heavy artillery bombardment.
More Meanings
- (military, slang) To unleash a heavy artillery bombardment.
- (Internet slang, finance, humorous, chiefly in the plural) A stock, especially a bullish one.
- (Internet slang, humorous) A profitable thing or scheme.
- (slang, vulgar) A large or intense penile erection.
- (slang) To overwhelm or trounce; to defeat decisively.
Example Sentences
Stonk is essentially just a funny way to say “stock” – and once you understand that, it explains everything else that has happened.
It’s all part of our wild new YOLO FOMO LOL economy, where stonks only go up, memes count as financial advice and stimmies buy Hemis.
Other so-called “stonks” – an intentional misspelling of “stocks” – favoured by retail traders on sites such as Reddit’s WallStreetBets also shot higher.
Long before Reddit, the Yahoo message boards of the late 1990s democratized the expression of strong opinions about stocks (they didn’t call them “stonks” in those days).
Word Forms
- stonks
- stonking
- stonked
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bombard, stronk, bombardment, storm, shelling, tonk.
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