gronking

Verb (1)

gronk (third-person singular simple present gronks, present participle gronking, simple past and past participle gronked)

1. (intransitive, slang) Of a floppy disk drive: to produce mechanical sounds of operation.
   • They say a good detective always starts at the beginning, so I installed the program on my VGA PC's hard drive. As the computer gronked away, copying six 5¼-inch floppies, I wondered why, if bad detectives start at the end, […]1990, Compute, volume 12, numbers 1-5, page 62
2. (intransitive, rare, slang) To fail; to crash or go wrong.
   • Repeats the last 40 lines of IRC output, in case your terminal gronked.1992, Charlottesville Computer Users' Group: CCUG

Verb (2)

gronk (third-person singular simple present gronks, present participle gronking, simple past and past participle gronked)

1. To make a gronking sound.
   • A raven gronked along the timber-covered ridge line, and a cool breeze swept down from the snow-covered peaks.2001, G. Stewart Nash, The Last Three Hundred Miles, page 96

   Synonyms:

   quork

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