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bonking

bonking is the present participle and gerund 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

See all 10 meanings of bonk

Noun

bonking (plural bonkings)

  1. (slang) A session of sexual intercourse.
    • Couples still have plenty of sex when conception is out of the question either because of the time of the woman's cycle, or because she is already pregnant or breastfeeding. But now the mystery of these fruitless bonkings might be solved.2002, New Scientist, volume 173, numbers 2324-2331, page 32

Forms of bonking

pluralbonkings

Phrases with bonking

Questions about bonking

What does bonking mean?
Bonking means a session of sexual intercourse.
What is bonking the present participle and gerund of?
Bonking is the present participle and gerund of bonk.
What part of speech is bonking?
Bonking is a noun.
What is the plural of bonking?
The plural of bonking is bonkings.

Words near bonking in the dictionary

  1. bonker
  2. bonkered
  3. bonkers
  4. bonkersdom
  5. bonkersness
  6. bonking
  7. bonkings
  8. bonkler
  9. Bonkowski
  10. Bonkowskis
  11. bonks

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