"zonk" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [Dutch]

Audio: Nl-zonk.ogg
Rhymes: -ɔŋk Head templates: {{head|nl|verb form}} zonk
  1. singular past indicative of zinken Tags: form-of, indicative, past, singular Form of: zinken
    Sense id: en-zonk-nl-verb-ek7T0dZT Categories (other): Dutch entries with incorrect language header

Noun [English]

IPA: /zɒŋk/ [UK] Audio: En-au-zonk.ogg [Australia] Forms: zonks [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒŋk Etymology: First attested around 1950. Unknown origin, likely imitative, of echoic origin. Etymology templates: {{unk|en}} Unknown Head templates: {{en-noun}} zonk (plural zonks)
  1. (slang) An unfavorable card or token, or undesirable or worthless item used as a prize in a contest or game show (such as Let's Make a Deal). Tags: slang Translations (unfavorable card or token): черен Петър (čeren Petǎr) [masculine] (Bulgarian), plíva [feminine] (Czech), schijtkaart [Flemish, colloquial, feminine] (Dutch), Zonk [masculine] (German), Niete [feminine] (German), Trostpreis [masculine] (German), Arschkarte [feminine] (German), Schwarzer Peter [masculine] (German), Lucifer (Hungarian), svarte petter (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-zonk-en-noun-gI4Mp6gS Disambiguation of 'unfavorable card or token': 83 14 3
  2. (slang) The feeling of a drug taking hold. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-zonk-en-noun-fomM1pU-
  3. (slang) A cigarette hand-rolled from tobacco and cannabis. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-zonk-en-noun-NjJ~KZjq

Verb [English]

IPA: /zɒŋk/ [UK] Audio: En-au-zonk.ogg [Australia] Forms: zonks [present, singular, third-person], zonking [participle, present], zonked [participle, past], zonked [past]
Rhymes: -ɒŋk Etymology: First attested around 1950. Unknown origin, likely imitative, of echoic origin. Etymology templates: {{unk|en}} Unknown Head templates: {{en-verb}} zonk (third-person singular simple present zonks, present participle zonking, simple past and past participle zonked)
  1. (transitive, slang) To hit hard . Tags: slang, transitive
    Sense id: en-zonk-en-verb-YgXjJigo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English onomatopoeias Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 28 7 40 2 2 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 22 27 8 38 3 3 Disambiguation of English onomatopoeias: 20 28 8 35 5 5
  2. (transitive, slang) To make (someone) sleepy or delirious, to put into a stupor . Tags: slang, transitive
    Sense id: en-zonk-en-verb-UeTCiQfv
  3. (intransitive, slang, usually followed by “out”) To become exhausted, sleepy or delirious. Tags: intransitive, slang, usually Translations (become exhausted): müde werden (German), wegtreten (German), schläfrig werden (German), schlapp werden (German), устать (ustatʹ) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-zonk-en-verb-tdNhvKpG Disambiguation of 'become exhausted': 2 9 89
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: zonk out, zonked Translations (make sleepy or delirious): schläfrig machen (German), müde machen (German)
Disambiguation of 'make sleepy or delirious': 1 49 50

Noun [Polish]

IPA: /zɔŋk/
Rhymes: -ɔŋk Etymology: From the name of the mascot in the form of a cat in the bag, which served as a worthless prize in Idź na całość, the Polish version of the game show Let's Make a Deal. Head templates: {{pl-noun|m-anml}} zonk m animal Inflection templates: {{pl-decl-noun-m-anml}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], zonk [nominative, singular], zonki [nominative, plural], zonka [genitive, singular], zonków [genitive, plural], zonkowi [dative, singular], zonkom [dative, plural], zonka [accusative, singular], zonki [accusative, plural], zonkiem [instrumental, singular], zonkami [instrumental, plural], zonku [locative, singular], zonkach [locative, plural], zonku [singular, vocative], zonki [plural, vocative]
  1. (colloquial) bummer (disappointment) Wikipedia link: Let's Make a Deal, pl:Idź na całość Tags: animal-not-person, colloquial, masculine

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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        "singular past indicative of zinken"
      ],
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        [
          "zinken",
          "zinken#Dutch"
        ]
      ],
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        "form-of",
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔŋk"
    },
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    }
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}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
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    "English nouns",
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        "plural"
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2003-10-1, Gregory Arthur Baer Life: The Odds (And How to Improve Them), Penguin, page 237",
          "text": "There will always be two doors that hold zonks, so regardless of whether you initially chose the grand prize or a zonk, Monty will always be able to show you a zonk not chosen."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003-12-30, Jerrilyn Farmer, Mumbo Gumbo: A Madeline Bean Novel, HarperCollins, page 204",
          "text": "A live, mane-embellished, SAG-card-carrying lion, I should point out, who was likely being staged for a few minutes off to the side before he would be used as a freaking “Zonk!” on a freaking game show, for crying out loud."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Jay Mechling, On My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth, University of Chicago Press, page 124",
          "text": "A zonk was way overdue, yet the boys knew that the Seniors knew they would think this was a zonk and would trick the boys by making this another real prize."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Timothy V. Rasinski, Nancy Padak, Effective reading strategies: teaching children who find reading difficult, Pearson/Prentice Hall, page 150",
          "text": "I have three empty coffee cans, two with prizes and one with a slip of paper that says \"Zonk.\""
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006-05-09, Bruce Frey, Statistics hacks, O'Reilly Media, page 208",
          "text": "Avoid the Zonk / On the TV show Let's Make a Deal, contestants often had to choose between three curtains."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Max H. Bazerman, Don A. Moore, Judgment in Managerial Decision Making, John Wiley & Sons, page 53",
          "text": "Once a contestant picked a door, Monty would often open one of the other two doors to reveal a zonk, […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Victor Shoup, A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra, Cambridge University Press, page 217",
          "text": "Behind two doors is a “zonk,” that is, something amusing but of little or no value, such as a goat, […]"
        }
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        "(slang) An unfavorable card or token, or undesirable or worthless item used as a prize in a contest or game show (such as Let's Make a Deal)."
      ],
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        "slang"
      ]
    },
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        "The feeling of a drug taking hold."
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        "(slang) The feeling of a drug taking hold."
      ],
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        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "English slang"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A cigarette hand-rolled from tobacco and cannabis."
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        "(slang) A cigarette hand-rolled from tobacco and cannabis."
      ],
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        "slang"
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      "ipa": "/zɒŋk/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒŋk"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
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    }
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "čeren Petǎr",
      "sense": "unfavorable card or token",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "черен Петър"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "unfavorable card or token",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "plíva"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "unfavorable card or token",
      "tags": [
        "Flemish",
        "colloquial",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "schijtkaart"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "unfavorable card or token",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Zonk"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "unfavorable card or token",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Niete"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "unfavorable card or token",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Trostpreis"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "unfavorable card or token",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Arschkarte"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "unfavorable card or token",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Schwarzer Peter"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "unfavorable card or token",
      "word": "Lucifer"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "unfavorable card or token",
      "word": "svarte petter"
    }
  ],
  "word": "zonk"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
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    "English nouns",
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        "To hit hard ."
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        "(transitive, slang) To hit hard ."
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        "transitive"
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        "(transitive, slang) To make (someone) sleepy or delirious, to put into a stupor ."
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        }
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      ],
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          "exhausted"
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          "sleepy"
        ]
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        "(intransitive, slang, usually followed by “out”) To become exhausted, sleepy or delirious."
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      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "slang",
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      "tags": [
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      ]
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒŋk"
    },
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      "tags": [
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      ],
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "make sleepy or delirious",
      "word": "schläfrig machen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "make sleepy or delirious",
      "word": "müde machen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "become exhausted",
      "word": "müde werden"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "become exhausted",
      "word": "wegtreten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "become exhausted",
      "word": "schläfrig werden"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "become exhausted",
      "word": "schlapp werden"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ustatʹ",
      "sense": "become exhausted",
      "word": "устать"
    }
  ],
  "word": "zonk"
}

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  "etymology_text": "From the name of the mascot in the form of a cat in the bag, which served as a worthless prize in Idź na całość, the Polish version of the game show Let's Make a Deal.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "pl-decl-noun-m-anml",
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        "inflection-template"
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        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "declension",
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        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "zonka",
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        "singular"
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        "plural"
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zonkom",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zonka",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zonki",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zonkiem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zonkami",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zonku",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zonkach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zonku",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zonki",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "zonk m animal",
      "name": "pl-noun"
    }
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  "hyphenation": [
    "zonk"
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    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "pl-decl-noun-m-anml"
    }
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  "lang_code": "pl",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "Polish 1-syllable words",
        "Polish animal nouns",
        "Polish colloquialisms",
        "Polish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Polish lemmas",
        "Polish links with manual fragments",
        "Polish links with redundant alt parameters",
        "Polish links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Polish masculine nouns",
        "Polish nouns",
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        "Polish terms with audio links",
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        "Rhymes:Polish/ɔŋk/1 syllable"
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      "glosses": [
        "bummer (disappointment)"
      ],
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        [
          "bummer",
          "bummer"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) bummer (disappointment)"
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      "tags": [
        "animal-not-person",
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        "masculine"
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      "ipa": "/zɔŋk/"
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔŋk"
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}

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