bonk

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  1. transitive verb To strike or cause to come into contact: She bonked her head going through the low doorway.
  2. intransitive verb To collide against something: His head bonked against the wall as he fell.
  3. noun A blow to the head.

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  • A bit off her bonk, of course, but none of us suspected she was that far gone. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
  • She could hear the crackle of bone beneath the screams and the heavy, thick boonnnnk-bonk-bonk as the log hammered itself to a stop on the rocky ground. —  Map.html
  • If you use a FFT application (measures resonances) and so much as "bonk" on a mandolin, anywhere on the mandolin, the FFT will detect all the resonances in the mandolin; top, back, air, body, all of them from one "bonk". —  Mandolin Cafe News
  • Speaking on Last Call with Carson Daly, Piper explained the terms "bonk" and —  All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News
  • From what I've worked out bonk is mainly useful in 2 situations, 1 getting past them so you can get behind enemy lines or using it to distract a sentry while the rest of your team takes the sentry out. —  Eurogamer
 

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