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  • interjection Alternative form of thock.

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Examples

  • “Pew, Pew, Pew.” and tehn removed “thwok, thwok, thwok.” ai donta know why, butt dat jes tickled teh heck out of me.

    Husband kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • His skull struck the pavement first—hitting with a sickening thwok—and he rolled over with a groan.

    LIAR FRANCINE PASCAL 2000

  • His skull struck the pavement first—hitting with a sickening thwok—and he rolled over with a groan.

    LIAR FRANCINE PASCAL 2000

  • Her mother's despair is measured by the steady thwok of her wooden mixing spoon, the rolling out of sugar crusts, the daylong labor of gâteaux St. Honoré.

    NYT > Home Page By CRISTINA GARCÍA 2011

  • Her mother's despair is measured by the steady thwok of her wooden mixing spoon, the rolling out of sugar crusts, the daylong labor of gâteaux St. Honoré.

    NYT > Home Page By CRISTINA GARCÍA 2011

  • Bounce bounce bounce bounce thwackety wackety zingety ping hittety backety pingety zang wack, thwok, thwack, pok.

    The New Yorker 2010

  • "Bounce bounce bounce bounce/thwackety wackety zingety ping/hittety backety pingety zang/wack, thwok, thwack, pok."

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2010

  • For those of us accustomed to the thwok, thwok, thwok of helicopter blades and the scream of jet engines overhead, the sight of a huge propeller-driven C-130J Hercules cargo plane soaring over the desert is most unusual.

    Ridgecrest Daily Independent Homepage RSS 2009

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