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Tekoälykääntäjä

Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

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Määritelmät

Substantiivi

  1. (slang, derogatory, chiefly US) An illegal immigrant of any country.
  2. (slang) An item or items of value, or of perceived value, especially for sale.
  3. A matching card game, combining features of knock rummy and conquian.
  4. A sound produced by knocking on something hollow.
  5. (slang) A tank.
  6. (cricket, colloquial) A resounding strike of the ball; a powerful hit of the ball with the bat.

Huudahdus

  1. Representing a sound produced by knocking on something hollow.

Verbi

  1. (cricket, colloquial, transitive) To knock or strike (a ball) so that it flies through the air.

Adjektiivi

  1. (slang, UK) Big, muscular, massive.

Esimerkit

  • 1990: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, Confirmation Hearings on Federal Appointments: Hearings Before the Committee - An agent, Larry Moy, when asked to define the derivation of the term “tonk,” replied: “...it's the sound of flashlight hitting somebody's head, tonk". [This "derivation" is incorrect - see Etymology]
  • 1998: Cirenio Rodriguez & Enrique T Trueba, Leadership, education and political action, in Ethnic Identity and Power: Cultural Contexts of Political Action in School and Society - "Catch as many tonks as you guys can. Safely. An alien is not worth busting a leg."
  • 2005: EMF (poster on The QandO Blog in response to Illegal immigration made easy, read at http://www.qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=789 on 27 May 2006) - The pissed off Arizona land owner who snipes the tonks with a high powered rifle.
  • How much tonk have we got to shift?

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