What does tonk mean?
Tonk means (slang, derogatory, chiefly US) An illegal immigrant of any country..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(slang, derogatory, chiefly US) An illegal immigrant of any country..
1990: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, Confirmation Hearings on Federal Appointments: Hearings Before the Committee - An agent, Larry Moy, when asked to define the derivation of the term “tonk,” replied: “...it's the sound of flashlight hitting somebody's head, tonk". [This "derivation" is incorrect - see Etymology]
1998: Cirenio Rodriguez & Enrique T Trueba, Leadership, education and political action, in Ethnic Identity and Power: Cultural Contexts of Political Action in School and Society - "Catch as many tonks as you guys can. Safely. An alien is not worth busting a leg."
2005: EMF (poster on The QandO Blog in response to Illegal immigration made easy, read at https://web.archive.org/web/20060528001651/http://www.qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=789 on 27 May 2006) - The pissed off Arizona land owner who snipes the tonks with a high powered rifle.
How much tonk have we got to shift?
It has big deep-down chairs and a card table by the window covered with jade, dracena and doctor plants until they want to have card games or play tonk between themselves.
In one of those stampings into the yard he suddenly rushed at the tank and tapped it. Tonk, tonk, tonk, tab. One rung left. Only one rung; about a week's supply of water.
Then your dad would step up and spend 45 minutes repeatedly tonking the ball over the shower block […]
Moments later, Sehwag tonked the ball and it travelled some distance.
Use tonk when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tonk means (slang, derogatory, chiefly US) An illegal immigrant of any country..
Common synonyms include hench, able-bodied, athletic, Atlantean.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1990: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, Confirmation Hearings on Federal Appointments: Hearings Before the Committee - An agent, Larry Moy, when asked to define the derivation of the term “tonk,” replied: “...it's the sound of flashlight hitting somebody's head, tonk". [This "derivation" is incorrect - see Etymology]
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