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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The raucous, resonant sound characteristic of a wild goose.
  2. n. A sound similar to a goose's honk: blew a loud honk on the bass saxophone.
  3. n. The blaring sound of the horn on a motor vehicle.
  4. v. To emit a honk.
  5. v. To cause (a horn) to produce a honk.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The cry of the wild goose.
  2. To emit the cry of the wild goose.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To use a car horn.
  2. v. To make a sound like a car horn.
  3. v. To make the sound of a goose.
  4. n. The sound produced by a typical car horn.
  5. n. The cry of a goose.
  6. interj. Imitation of car horn, used, for example, to clear a path for oneself.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The cry of a wild goose.
  2. n. To make a sound like the honk of a goose.
  3. n. To sound the horn on an automobile or other motor vehicle.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. use the horn of a car
  2. v. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
  3. n. the cry of a goose (or any sound resembling this)
  4. v. cry like a goose
  5. v. make a loud noise

Etymologies

  1. Imitative.

Examples

  • “She listened, but she did not hear his _honk, honk, honk_!”

    Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs

  • “_Honk, honk, honk_, cried the old Wild Goose, from the sheltered marsh where he did not know what was going on.”

    Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs

  • “* honk honk*. .and who the ***** invited the word "tween"!?”

    digg.com: Stories / Popular

  • “She stood on the street for what we call a honk and wave.”

    CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2008

  • “But his honk was the anomaly, "shave and a haircut" from his LTD about half a block away meant to let his wife know he was pulling into the driveway soon.”

    Minnesota Premier Publications - Southwest Journal Stories

  • “The cheese gives off the kind of honk that the cartoonists from the Beano indicate with wavy green lines, fainting dentists and gasping kids with pegs on their noses.”

    Archive 2005-09-01

  • “Kurt Vonnegut called it a "honk"; it was thought to be "British.”

    The Last Gentleman

  • “It gave a couple of shrill squeaks which were answered by a noncommittal "honk" from one of the adults.”

    The Sands of Mars

  • “He can hit his bird on the wing every time, and he can 'honk' so's to fool any goose alive, and find the best blinds of anybody 'longshore.”

    Sara, a Princess

  • “Each time, at the first faint "honk," we got quickly to the windows or out on deck, and stood waiting for the beautiful V-shaped flight to come swinging into our sky-lane.”

    Virginia: the Old Dominion

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