Definitions

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  • noun Unwanted noise picked up by a microphone in a broadcasting studio
  • noun Audience chatter which disturbs the performer
  • verb intransitive To produce unwanted noise.
  • verb intransitive To honk.

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Examples

  • Early one morning in Spring he flapped his strong wings and tucked his wet webbed feet up close to his body and stretched out his long neck and calling "Quonk-quonk!" he flapped away to the north.

    Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds Lucy Sprague Mitchell 1922

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  • ...the startled quonk of a Belgian car...

    - Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor

    June 5, 2008

  • Are they made of chocolate?

    June 5, 2008

  • HA!

    June 6, 2008