"twock" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "twocks",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "twocking",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "twocked",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "twocked",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "twoc"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "31 35 35",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Pretext, page 105",
          "text": "I'd just go out, hammer someone, twock a car, get a rock of skag and have a whistle, take a few DFs, a couple of Valium, smoke pot, and have sex. Then running it on the foil was not enough for me and I wanted the needle - to get further away.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Sam Llewellyn, Little Darlings, page 30",
          "text": "Sam Llewellyn, jaws set, narrow-eyed and determined, like you had to be when you were off to twock a Jag.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of twoc"
      ],
      "id": "en-twock-en-verb-SDrh~bec",
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        [
          "twoc",
          "twoc#English"
        ]
      ],
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        "alt-of",
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "twock"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "Onomatopoeia.",
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    {
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        "2": "noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "_dis": "31 35 35",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1977, New West, page NQ-2",
          "text": "Hordes of shadow people, adult and child, milled from one end of this yellowing old room to the other, stopping to hunch over assorted fantasy devices. The noise was stunning, a garble of mechanical exclamation, the twock twock of the air hockey games […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1984, Bob Talbert, Good Moanin: The Best of Bob Talbert, Detroit Free Press",
          "text": "Spring is the twong! twock! of the tennis court and a new crack jagging along the concrete. Spring is pants cuffs filled with new clipped grass.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Andrea Pickens, A Diamond in the Rough, Signet Book (a golf novel), page 34",
          "text": "The faint words trailed off to the soft twock of wood on leather. Philp squinted up at the slate gray clouds scudding in from the Bay. \"Best we hurry if we mean to finish the last hole without a soaking, for there promises to be a spot of rain […] \""
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Ivor Baddiel, Steve Fist, Bottle: The Completely True Story of an Ex-Football Hooligan, Random House",
          "text": "Flying through the turnstiles, our fists were already clenched, in my mind I could already hear the crunch of knuckle on tooth, the doof of forehead on nose and the twock of boot on head. But as it turned out, that's all […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Andrew James Pritchard, Sukiyaki, Lulu Press, Inc",
          "text": "The summer went flying swiftly by with the twock of a bat hitting a baseball, or the spong of a tennis ball hitting the hard clay court, followed by an aggressive grunt (preferably Ami's). Speaking of which, I did see Ami a few times […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The sharp, quick sound of one hard thing hitting another hard (or rubber or leather) thing, especially sports equipment such as a bat hitting a ball."
      ],
      "id": "en-twock-en-noun-ddioX2~4",
      "links": [
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          "equipment"
        ],
        [
          "bat",
          "bat"
        ],
        [
          "ball",
          "ball"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncommon) The sharp, quick sound of one hard thing hitting another hard (or rubber or leather) thing, especially sports equipment such as a bat hitting a ball."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncommon"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "31 35 35",
          "kind": "other",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Andrea DaRif, A Kiss of Spice, Simon and Schuster, page 21",
          "text": "[…] he offered Olivia the bow. […] Twock! “Dead center!” “What skill,” cried Cara, with a clap of her hands. “What luck,” riposted her cousin. What fun. Olivia stilled the quivering bowstring with her thumb but it was not quite so easy to control the twitch of her lips. […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Hachette Assorted Authors, Scoundrels, Monsters, and Special Circumstances: Orbit October-December 2010, Orbit",
          "text": "All other sound was buried in the heavy twock of longbows, and the hiss and thud of Merron arrows seeking and finding their target. The soldiers' limp bodies tumbled to the water with mighty splashes. Their blood washed downstream […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A twang; the sharp, quick sound an arrow being shot (and a bowstring vibrating) or hitting something hard."
      ],
      "id": "en-twock-en-noun-YjGNZWky",
      "links": [
        [
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          "twang"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncommon) A twang; the sharp, quick sound an arrow being shot (and a bowstring vibrating) or hitting something hard."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncommon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "twock"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "twocks",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "twocking",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "twocked",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "twocked",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
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        {
          "word": "twoc"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Pretext, page 105",
          "text": "I'd just go out, hammer someone, twock a car, get a rock of skag and have a whistle, take a few DFs, a couple of Valium, smoke pot, and have sex. Then running it on the foil was not enough for me and I wanted the needle - to get further away.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Sam Llewellyn, Little Darlings, page 30",
          "text": "Sam Llewellyn, jaws set, narrow-eyed and determined, like you had to be when you were off to twock a Jag.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of twoc"
      ],
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        [
          "twoc",
          "twoc#English"
        ]
      ],
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        "alt-of",
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "twock"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "Onomatopoeia.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with uncommon senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1977, New West, page NQ-2",
          "text": "Hordes of shadow people, adult and child, milled from one end of this yellowing old room to the other, stopping to hunch over assorted fantasy devices. The noise was stunning, a garble of mechanical exclamation, the twock twock of the air hockey games […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1984, Bob Talbert, Good Moanin: The Best of Bob Talbert, Detroit Free Press",
          "text": "Spring is the twong! twock! of the tennis court and a new crack jagging along the concrete. Spring is pants cuffs filled with new clipped grass.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Andrea Pickens, A Diamond in the Rough, Signet Book (a golf novel), page 34",
          "text": "The faint words trailed off to the soft twock of wood on leather. Philp squinted up at the slate gray clouds scudding in from the Bay. \"Best we hurry if we mean to finish the last hole without a soaking, for there promises to be a spot of rain […] \""
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Ivor Baddiel, Steve Fist, Bottle: The Completely True Story of an Ex-Football Hooligan, Random House",
          "text": "Flying through the turnstiles, our fists were already clenched, in my mind I could already hear the crunch of knuckle on tooth, the doof of forehead on nose and the twock of boot on head. But as it turned out, that's all […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Andrew James Pritchard, Sukiyaki, Lulu Press, Inc",
          "text": "The summer went flying swiftly by with the twock of a bat hitting a baseball, or the spong of a tennis ball hitting the hard clay court, followed by an aggressive grunt (preferably Ami's). Speaking of which, I did see Ami a few times […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The sharp, quick sound of one hard thing hitting another hard (or rubber or leather) thing, especially sports equipment such as a bat hitting a ball."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "equipment",
          "equipment"
        ],
        [
          "bat",
          "bat"
        ],
        [
          "ball",
          "ball"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncommon) The sharp, quick sound of one hard thing hitting another hard (or rubber or leather) thing, especially sports equipment such as a bat hitting a ball."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncommon"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with uncommon senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Andrea DaRif, A Kiss of Spice, Simon and Schuster, page 21",
          "text": "[…] he offered Olivia the bow. […] Twock! “Dead center!” “What skill,” cried Cara, with a clap of her hands. “What luck,” riposted her cousin. What fun. Olivia stilled the quivering bowstring with her thumb but it was not quite so easy to control the twitch of her lips. […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Hachette Assorted Authors, Scoundrels, Monsters, and Special Circumstances: Orbit October-December 2010, Orbit",
          "text": "All other sound was buried in the heavy twock of longbows, and the hiss and thud of Merron arrows seeking and finding their target. The soldiers' limp bodies tumbled to the water with mighty splashes. Their blood washed downstream […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A twang; the sharp, quick sound an arrow being shot (and a bowstring vibrating) or hitting something hard."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "twang",
          "twang"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncommon) A twang; the sharp, quick sound an arrow being shot (and a bowstring vibrating) or hitting something hard."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncommon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "twock"
}