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  • verb To hit someone, playfully, but hard.

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Examples

  • Finally he took his stance, wig-wagged his butt a bit, then weighed into the ball-a nice clean stroke, the solid thwock, if I maybe allowed just one little onomatopoeia.

    At the Pine-Woods Golf & Poetry Club Con Chapman 2011

  • The lid made a thwock sound as I pulled the silver tab that locked all the roasted goodness of my Planter's mixed nuts.

    Dear Planters 2010

  • Nothing but twirling that handle and smacking that little ball, just so you can hear the marvelous sound of that white sphere whizzing through the air and smacking the back of the goal with a satisfying wooden thwock.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • Nothing but twirling that handle and smacking that little ball, just so you can hear the marvelous sound of that white sphere whizzing through the air and smacking the back of the goal with a satisfying wooden thwock.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • Nothing but twirling that handle and smacking that little ball, just so you can hear the marvelous sound of that white sphere whizzing through the air and smacking the back of the goal with a satisfying wooden thwock.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • Nothing but twirling that handle and smacking that little ball, just so you can hear the marvelous sound of that white sphere whizzing through the air and smacking the back of the goal with a satisfying wooden thwock.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • Since compressed air is our gunpowder, the device makes more of a pleasing ‘thwock!’ than a headsplitting ‘bang!’.

    Introducing Paintball Tanks | Impact Lab 2006

  • “No, Errol!” shouted the white one, and there was a tangle of limbs and the thwock of bone on flesh as they struggled to contain him.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

  • “No, Errol!” shouted the white one, and there was a tangle of limbs and the thwock of bone on flesh as they struggled to contain him.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

  • A few of the kids had located that magical-seeming burst of leverage that makes the ball explode off the strings with a distinctive thwock.

    Myelination and Horizontality Bruce Schauble 2007

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  • thwock the thwock

    June 14, 2009