thunked

Verb (1)

thunk (third-person singular simple present thunks, present participle thunking, simple past and past participle thunked)

1. To strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound.
   • I was thunked on the head by his stick.

Verb (2)

thunk (third-person singular simple present thunks, present participle thunking, simple past and past participle thunked)

1. (transitive, functional programming) To delay (a computation).
   • Not surprisingly, a thunk is more expensive to store than a single number, and the more complex the thunked expression, the more space it needs. For something cheap such as arithmetic, thunking an expression is more computationally expensive than calculating it immediately.2009, Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, Donald Bruce Stewart, Real World Haskell, O'Reilly, page 97
2. (transitive) To execute (code) by means of a thunk.
   • This efficiency is offset by the fact that some of the calls made by Win32 apps must now be thunked down to 16 bits, something that isn't necessary in Windows NT and OS/2.1995 May 16, Andrew Schulman, “DOS is Dead? Look Again”, in PC Mag, volume 14, number 9, page 150

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