Tonk

Quick meaning: Tonk is a noun meaning A matching card game, combining features of knock rummy and conquian.

Meaning

A matching card game, combining features of knock rummy and conquian.

More Meanings

1. Representing a sound produced by knocking on something hollow.
2. A sound produced by knocking on something hollow.
3. (cricket, colloquial) A resounding strike of the ball; a powerful hit of the ball with the bat.
4. (cricket, colloquial, transitive) To knock or strike (a ball) so that it flies through the air.
5. (slang, derogatory, chiefly US) An illegal immigrant of any country.
6. (slang) An item or items of value, or of perceived value, especially for sale.
7. (slang) A tank.

Example Sentences

How much tonk have we got to shift?

Moments later, Sehwag tonked the ball and it travelled some distance.

Then your dad would step up and spend 45 minutes repeatedly tonking the ball over the shower block […]

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.

Word Forms

• tonks
• tonking
• tonked
• tonker
• tonkest

Synonyms for tonk

Depending on context, synonyms include hench, able-bodied, athletic, beefy, brawny, brolic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include honky, tunk, teenigger, illegal, gonk, tootsoon.

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