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bonked

bonked is the simple past and past participle of bonk.

Meaning of bonk

Verb

bonk (third-person singular simple present bonks, present participle bonking, simple past and past participle bonked)

  1. (informal) To hit or strike; to collide with something.
    • Please let it be the cow. No such luck, The 'cow' picked up my big brass telescope and bonked me on the head with it.1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 57
  2. (UK, ambitransitive, informal) To have sexual intercourse (with).
    • Sophie (Katrin Cartlidge) What is a proper relationship?
      Louise (Lesley Sharp): Living with someone who talks to you after they've bonked ya.1993, Mike Leigh, Naked
  3. To hit something with the front of the board, especially in midair.
  4. (informal) To experience sudden and severe fatigue in an endurance sports event due to glycogen depletion.
    • I had eaten five of my six PowerBars. I was exhausted and famished. In cycling they describe what was happening to me as bonking: my body was out of fuel and had no more energy.2004, Gary Erickson, Lois Ann Lorentzen, Raising the Bar, Jossey-Bass, →ISBN, page 29
    Synonyms:
    hit the wall

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What is bonked the simple past and past participle of?
Bonked is the simple past and past participle of bonk.

Words near bonked in the dictionary

  1. bonkability
  2. bonkable
  3. bonkbuster
  4. bonkbusters
  5. bonkbusting
  6. bonked
  7. bonkei
  8. bonker
  9. bonkered
  10. bonkers
  11. bonkersdom

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