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)
- 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
- 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
- Sophie (Katrin Cartlidge) What is a proper relationship?
- To hit something with the front of the board, especially in midair.
- 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
Noun
bonking (plural bonkings)
- 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
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